Peter Greenaway Quotes
May I keep this book forever. May this book and this body outlast my love. May this book and this body love me as I love its length, its breadth, its thickness, its text, its skin, its letters, its punctuation, its quiet and its noisy pages.
Quotes to Explore
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
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I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.
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If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
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If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
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May I keep this book forever. May this book and this body outlast my love. May this book and this body love me as I love its length, its breadth, its thickness, its text, its skin, its letters, its punctuation, its quiet and its noisy pages.
