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 -
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 -
I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
Park Chan-wook -
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith -
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 -
I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
Katey Sagal
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
Fat Joe -
The most important thing is to stay positive.
Saku Koivu -
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth -
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 -
I’ve always been highly energized and have written poems in spurts. From the god-given first line right through the poem. And I don’t write two or three lines and then come back the next day and write two or three more; I write the whole poem at one sitting and then come back to it from time to time over the months or years and rework it.
A. R. Ammons -
If we did but know how we rush into one evil while seeking to avoid another, we should have no resolution to shun any thing.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
Charles Spurgeon -
...life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love-the serge outlasts the silk.
Clifford Odets -
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
Fred Wilson -
The soul is joined to and is separated from the body. Therefore, the soul is corporeal.
Chrysippus -
Growing up in D.C. there are so many different types of educational and professional levels. They call D.C. 'Chocolate City' but just because we're all chocolate doesn't mean we're all the same. In D.C., everyone co-exists harmoniously but the lines are still drawn. And people don't really step over those lines.
Laz Alonso
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I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.
Joanne Rowling -
My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.
Willie Lanier -
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
Camille Claudel -
...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.
Andy Grundberg -
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
Peter Greenaway