Jeanette Winterson Quotes
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Quotes to Explore
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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What I do is I do my job.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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He climbs highest who helps another up.
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I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
