Peter Greenaway Quotes

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

Peter Greenaway

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We live in a time where we're made to feel guilty about overeating, oversleeping, and not exercising. Garfield not only does all that, but he doesn't apologize for it.

Jim Davis

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Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Jewel

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'Crashing' was my first scripted TV gig.

Jermaine Fowler

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Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.

Michael Arden

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I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it's a different world.

Steve Carell

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I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.

Stella Young

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This is Staples. On a good day, we get to stay at the Marriott Courtyard. We have a frugal culture.

Shira Goodman

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Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

Mike Leigh

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I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother's friends and play video games.

Jud Tylor

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We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve our access to housing, education, employment and gender-confirming healthcare.

Chelsea Manning

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I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.

Brenda Hillman

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There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

Arthur C. Brooks

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