#eli

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#available #believe #did #enabled #explain

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#comes #did #even #got #i

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings. ↗

— Olin Miller

#feelings #her #lie #little #man

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#believer #big #big believer #body #deny

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#also #american #believer #bring #competition

It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#believe #matters #only #shine #their

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#been #believe #believe in yourself #every #every time

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#athletes #capable #elite #handful #physically