Peter Greenaway Quotes
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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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The most important thing is to stay positive.
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I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.
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The increase in brain size and refinement of stone artifacts point to an unbroken advance in mental ability over the last two or three million years. ...No organ in the history of life has grown faster.
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I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and that's definitely going to change you - than going out and doing what you do in practice every day.
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The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
