Peter Greenaway Quotes
You see how even an illness can be romanticized. Tuberculosis got the treatment: Keats, the Lady of the Camellias, the foggy dew, and so on. We must make romantic literature out of cancer - can you imagine that?
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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You see how even an illness can be romanticized. Tuberculosis got the treatment: Keats, the Lady of the Camellias, the foggy dew, and so on. We must make romantic literature out of cancer - can you imagine that?
