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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Yourself Enough You Hard Stay

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

Work Good Job Me Think Down

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Say Test British Controversy Because

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Stephen Ambrose

Life Vote Never Got Been He

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Love Father Mother You Deserve Your

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

World Easy You Cinema Go Over

Even during the cuts. He was Rust Cohle during the whole day of shooting. It wasn't until the end of the day that he went back to Matthew 'Just Keep Livin' McConaughey.

Day End Of The Day End Back Rust

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Lorraine Toussaint

Children Small Think You Animals Up

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

Joseph Stiglitz

Politics Never Policy Different

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'

Allison Williams

Think House Grandparents Out Joking

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Me Energy Feeling Alive New Inside

I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.

Love Heart Try Follow Always Things

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

Love Job Enough Play Say Want

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