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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More modern poetry is written than read.
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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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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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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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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.
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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
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Very often, if you think about what's erotic and break it down, as we're feeling the excitement of eroticism, we're feeling fear. We want to try to dominate our fear and get rid of our fear, so we go towards it and have sex with it, basically. That's really sad.
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Naked is the best disguise.
