Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

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ArtPeopleLuxuryWhyUnderstand

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Jesmyn Ward

MyselfChildPeopleMeIdeasWant

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

Jesse Ventura

WinI CanRunGetOnlyBallot

It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.

Jens Lekman

PeopleFeelDoingYouMoreAlways

We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.

John Fusco

SomeoneBackDownOverWellGlobe

People don't come to my concerts because they know the program. They come because they love the atmosphere and because they know that when I offer them a program it will be a night they never forget.

Andre Rieu

LovePeopleNightNever ForgetKnow

So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?

Matt Smith

TimeMomentPeopleGraceYouWant

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

Michael Giles

PeopleThinkBoundariesOutWithin

There is such a very large quantity of books clamouring for a buyer's attention that publishers have relied more and more on support such as blurbs as a way of getting an independent recommendation from a familiar name, much in the same way that Amazon.com will send an e-mail recommending Book A to a customer who's already purchased Book B.

Sonny Mehta

SupportBookNameCustomerAttention

I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.

Sia

EnjoyWantProductionTechnicalVery

I take inspiration from so many places. I think, more than anything, it would have to be the music made by others that I've then fallen in love with, whether it's Madonna, Blood Orange, Fleetwood Mac, or Pink Floyd!

Shura

LoveMusicPinkThinkBloodOrange

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Toni Morrison

LifeBeautyWorldEnoughRemember

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Tom Brokaw

MeHeightTwoCostInchesFour

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