Jeanette Winterson Quotes
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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I was able to realize that I definitely want to make sure that I use my voice, as it gets bigger and bigger, in the world for good.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.
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Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
