Peter Greenaway Quotes
Where is a book before it is born? Does a book grow like a tree? Who are a book's parents? Does a book need two parents - a mother and a father? Can a book be born inside another book? And where is the parent book of books?
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
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His face was blue, on his fingersFlecks of green. 'This is my father',I thought.
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The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.
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The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.
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Where is a book before it is born? Does a book grow like a tree? Who are a book's parents? Does a book need two parents - a mother and a father? Can a book be born inside another book? And where is the parent book of books?
