Jeanette Winterson Quotes
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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Writers are so important.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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For as long as I can remember, I've just loved Chanel.
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When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.
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I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.
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As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.
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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.