Peter Greenaway Quotes

Later this device of mirror and mirror-carriers will be developed and many changes rung from its possibilities.

Peter Greenaway

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Stop

• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Dog
  • Mirror
  • Humble

• For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Mirror
  • Back
  • Seeing

• I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Know
  • Mirror

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Mirror

• I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Myself
  • Picture
  • Mirror

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Singing
  • Forever
  • Daily

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• I dress according to the requirement of the film, as a true actor. Off the camera, I'm just me. I have my preferences and my personal style. Before I step out, I look into the mirror just to confirm that my style is intact. Beyond this, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • True
  • Style
  • Mirror

• I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

  

  Fleur East
  • Practice
  • Mirror
  • Autograph

• Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Past

• I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Like
  • Take
  • Smell

• If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • People
  • Time
  • Health

• I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Why
  • Hair
  • Mirror

• In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Eyes

• You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

  

  Ricky Martin
  • World
  • Fear
  • Fall

• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Service

• I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Breastfeeding

• We all have a face that we hide away forever, And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone. Some are satin, some are steel, some are silk and some are leather. They're the faces of the stranger and we love to try them on.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Love
  • Forever
  • Hide

• Later this device of mirror and mirror-carriers will be developed and many changes rung from its possibilities.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Mirror