Jeanette Winterson Quotes
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
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We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
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This is the definition of the infinite: it is something that can stay the same size even when you subtract from it.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
