Peter Doig Quotes
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
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What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the Future reckon with this Man? How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores? How will it be with kingdoms and with kings - With those who shaped him to the thing he is - When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world. After the silence of the centuries?
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
