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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I read part of it all the way through.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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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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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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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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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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Theaters are the opposite of class lectures, the front row is where the action is.
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I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.
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The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs.
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For most of her existence, Molly had not shied from a truth that most people understood but diligently suppressed: that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature.
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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.
