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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I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
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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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I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
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The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.
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Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
