Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.
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Adani Enterprises is well on track to realize its aim of emerging as India's largest private sector energy and logistics conglomerate.
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I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.
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I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.
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Her mother called to her. She said, 'Where are you going, Flora Belle?' Flora didn't answer her. She never answered her mother when she called her Flora Belle. Sometimes she didn't answer her mother when she called her Flora either.
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The less a writer discusses his work-and himself-the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
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A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
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When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
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I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
