Peter Greenaway Quotes
Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
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You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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I'm a work in progress.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'
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The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
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Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.
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I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan during the daytime!
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Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.
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The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
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Change before you have to.
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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
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I think the women, therefore, must be concerned with these values, and I return to my statement that if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers.
