Peter Greenaway Quotes
The pages are so harmonious in their proportion / disharmony in the contents is impossible.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value of coins or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone.
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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I'm very free-spirited.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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Homère est un des génies qui résolvent ce beau problème de l’art, le plus beau de tous peut-être, la peinture vraie de l’humanité obtenue par le grandissement de l’homme, c’est-à-dire la génération du réel dans l’idéal.
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In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.
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I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
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It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.
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Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.
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The pages are so harmonious in their proportion / disharmony in the contents is impossible.
