Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Jeanette Winterson

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LoveHurtSelfYouPlaceWeak

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

Andrea Arnold

I AmPeopleWhyWayTurnOut

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Robert G. Allen

RichBecomeOptimistOutBuying

It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

Andy Grove

WorkFamilyChildrenTimeEnough

In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.

Simon McBurney

SpaceTheatreLookingYouLookSame

Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we'll be okay.

Trombone Shorty

SuccessStarsMusicFocusThinkNow

'All Def' is unlike any other comedy show or set because 'All Def' goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a 'stoop appeal.' A stoop appeal is important for us because it's where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood.

Tony Rock

BlackComedyDoingHoodBackJokes

All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

Roger Rees

LoveTrueTheaterAnyThing

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Miguel de Cervantes

WarNothingFortuneSubject

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

Mick Foley

LeaveEditorCommasPutPeriods

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

Jonny Lang

CareerBluesPlayKidWhoBegan

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

Dennis Prager

WealthMoreWhoseFactHarderThan

I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.

Donny Robinson

MeSmallYouBodyKindAnything

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