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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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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The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men...
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No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.
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I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.
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The next day the stock market crashed. Hemmingway didn’t quite understand what it all meant, but from the way the white people in town were running around like chickens without heads, she took it as an omen.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
