Peter Greenaway Quotes
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
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For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.
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I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
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This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.
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There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.
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Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.
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My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
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Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
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The most destructive criticism is indifference.
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What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.
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The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
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Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
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My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing to failure. I want to fail. I want to go to a place where I don't know what I'm doing, where maybe I'm lost. And in that uncertain space, I make decisions, and I know all those decisions are going to change everything else. And at a certain point, you just come to a place of rest. In revising, you reduce your options so that nothing is possible, and you just think, I can't change this anymore because I've already passed that decision point.
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