Jeanette Winterson Quotes

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Jeanette Winterson

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WorkTimeDayGoAnythingGet

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Jill Lepore

DieFollowPatternsSpreadBecause

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

Jill Lepore

LifePeopleNameGivingYouYoung

I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I had no idea what kind of book it would be.

Jennifer Egan

BookBackKindSquadWriteIdea

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

Steven Weber

WomenMenMediaGossipDressedLike

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.

Simon Mainwaring

VoiceBrandValuesToneDefineCore

Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

Tom Reiss

RussiaModernPoetHistorianBecame

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

DayDeathStandEvery DayLooksUs

Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.

Russell Smith

FashionBelieveNeverClassicIdea

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.

Roy Wood

PersonPlayMoreBandBigLeft

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

TruthWritingActingWantHuman

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

Roseanne Barr

ParentsMeant To BeMeant

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Dennis Rodman

MarriageThinkBadCombination

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