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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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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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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I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones.
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People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
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I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
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Naked is the best disguise.
