Peter Greenaway Quotes

The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities - Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.

Peter Greenaway

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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Love
  • Job
  • Amazing

• Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Thanks
  • Japanese
  • Became

• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Air
  • Japanese
  • Group

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Japanese

• I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Japanese

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Change
  • Japanese

• My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Kitchen
  • Italian
  • Japanese

• Because my hair is curly, I used to do all the straighteners, the Japanese this and the Brazilian that. And at the end of the day, your hair ends up not having a texture, not having the body - no shine. You're pretty much frying your hair. So understand the type of hair you have and do the best with what you have.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Day

• What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Want

• It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Leader
  • First Lady
  • Follower

• I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Japanese

• R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

• I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Been
  • Which
  • Waters

• Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Money
  • Free
  • Giving

• That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Study

• Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Present

• The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities - Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Japanese