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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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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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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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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Yum-o!
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Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? -That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.
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The booby father craves a booby son,And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.
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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.
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When you make the decision to call somebody out of the blue and say you want to talk to them about the worst thing that has happened to you, and I'm going to turn it into a cartoon... you're bound to ruffle some feathers or turn people off.
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Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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The pages are so harmonious in their proportion / disharmony in the contents is impossible.
