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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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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I've been in 'Avengers' films, but I don't do a lot of the action parts. There are superheroes in the movie! People would much rather see them fight each other!
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Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
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Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?
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People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
