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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

Jeanette Winterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Best I Am Doing I Can Whatever

It used to be that American and European companies built their products in low-wage countries, separated by great distances from the innovators who developed the products and the markets where they were sold. But companies increasingly find that is an outmoded way of doing business.

Business Great American Doing Find

I started 'Will & Grace' when I was 39, and Nick started 'Parks and Rec' when he was 39. And he's really on the same trajectory; it's all happening with the same timing. It's so funny to see it all happening again.

Funny Grace Timing Will Same See

Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Sex Pistols may come and go, but rebellion remains a key part of the rock n' roll experience. However, that rebellion - the outgrowth of a youthful search for independence and identity - doesn't always take the same form.

Experience Identity Key Independence

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.

Light People Sympathy Understanding

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

Age Moment Man Suffering Thinking

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Lawyer Better Jury Decide Chosen

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

Love Lost Kind Get Gothic Escapism

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Music Just Because Kind True Way

If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

Forgiveness God Sacrifice Saying You

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

Great Light Listening Spark First

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Myself Person Never See Whom Did

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

Live Time I Am Rich Trying Beyond

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