Peter Greenaway Quotes
Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks...
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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Schooling is so important.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
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Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
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I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
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I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
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I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!
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Get out of your own way. (p.28)
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Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks...
