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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Jeanette Winterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Confidence Truth You Got Stuff

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

Hope Me Kind Will Insight First

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.

I Am Think Confident Never Going Am

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Earth More Miserable Who Even He

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

Think Generation Enough You Hip-Hop

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

Intelligence Opinion You Differences

You have to be careful as a news organization that you don't fall into voluntary censorship, that you worry about offending your 'league partner.' I never worried about that. I worry about fans listening.

Organization Listening Partner Worry

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.

Time New York City Late New Page

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Attitude Acceptance Rejection Laws

In the mid-'60s, AM radio, pop radio, was just this incredible thing that played all kinds of music... You could hear Frank Sinatra right into the Yardbirds. The Beatles into Dean Martin. It was this amazing thing, and I miss it, in a way, because music has become so compartmentalized now, but in those days, it was all right in one spot.

Music Amazing You Now Way Become

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

Truth Truth Is Attention Connection

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Man Baseball Golf You Knife Club

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Environmental Problem Addiction Oil

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