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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.
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They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'
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Before you can change your industry positively, you need to understand how to go about doing so.
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I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
