Peter Greenaway Quotes
Twenty-four pulleys, one hundred counterweights / two lenses, dark shadows...
Peter Greenaway
Quotes to Explore
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Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.
Valerie Plame
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
Samuel L. Jackson
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
Olesya Rulin
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
Orlando Bloom
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
Aaron Huey
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Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.
Rain Phoenix
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
Ted Dekker
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
W. G. Sebald
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
Ice Cube
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
Ian Somerhalder
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
Pam Brown
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
Florence Nightingale
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37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.
Daniel Tammet
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The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
Andrew Rosenthal
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It is a known fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.
Vilfredo Pareto
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I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
Leah LaBelle
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I've lived all over the world, but Harlem is very special to me, and when I decided to open a restaurant near my home, I didn't want it to be business as usual.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Twenty-four pulleys, one hundred counterweights / two lenses, dark shadows...
Peter Greenaway
