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The only selfish life is a timid one.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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Manchester
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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