Jeanette Winterson Quotes
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
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Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
