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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
Park Chan-wook
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith
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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.
Carine Roitfeld
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The most important thing is to stay positive.
Saku Koivu
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I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.
Ram Charan
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth
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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.
Barton Gellman
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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.
Aamir Khan
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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.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
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History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.
Geoffrey Elton
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The stage is that immediate rush of energy you get from the audience. Also, doing something in chronology - something that starts and finishes the same night. In television, you work toward the one scene, you shoot it, and then you have to forget about it because you have to worry about the next scene.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
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Friends, if it matters to you, I think it is less important that we agree and more important that we learn to disagree with respect. Let's not expect to agree and get frustrated when it doesn't happen. Let's strive to hear each other out while bringing out the best in ourselves and others. I know it's difficult because I feel it everyday. But I also know it'll be good for us as individuals, for the organization, and the country. I invite you to strive with me and help shift our culture.
Annabel Park
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I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
Lorrie Moore
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
Peter Greenaway
