Brother Roger (Roger Schütz) Quotes
So why have I wavered so long? You have been seeking me unwearyingly. Why did I hesitate once again, asking for time to deal with my own affairs? Once I had set my hand to the plough, why did I look back? Without realizing it, I was making myself unfit to follow you.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they might be attractive to lots of blokes.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
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Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
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I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
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In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like 'charming' and 'clever' and 'pretty' are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
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This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.
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So why have I wavered so long? You have been seeking me unwearyingly. Why did I hesitate once again, asking for time to deal with my own affairs? Once I had set my hand to the plough, why did I look back? Without realizing it, I was making myself unfit to follow you.
