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My Own Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards…
- live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the…
- Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know…
- You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining…
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
- I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit…
- I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and…
More My Own Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale