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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Social media, for me, is about interacting with people who follow my career. I don't think my relationship has anything to do with my career.
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.
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In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.
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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.
