Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.
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Maybe I'll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.
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I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.
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You don't want to be a Kardashian.
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Naked is the best disguise.
