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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Jeanette Winterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 27, 1959

Topics

Well-Being Invisible Own Us Our

I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady.

Vision Crazy Glasses Colors Hair

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Spain Italy Really Countries

I want to attract as many people as I can to listen to my show, and I don't expect everyone to always agree with me.

People Me I Can Want Listen Always

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

Doing Party Alive Washington Nation

I would describe my relationship with my couch as symbiotic - others would describe it as dangerous.

Relationship Dangerous Others Couch

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Chuck Palahniuk

Time Story Thought Learn You Timing

The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.

Friend Great Story Pretty Trend

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

Funny Impossible American You Play

I dazzle you with that footwork.

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

Me Forest Say Kind Tension Here

I've probably cried with a lot of songs - in teenage crushes, adult crushes.

Aretha Franklin

Adult Songs Crushes Teenage Cried

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

Courage Men People Lose Farmers

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