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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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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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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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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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.
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This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
