Peter Greenaway Quotes
Some people would say again that my attitudes are cold and cerebral; I suppose if you're thinking about American sentimental movies, I suppose they would be.
Quotes to Explore
-
Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
-
In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
-
I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
-
I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
-
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
-
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
-
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
-
I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
-
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
-
I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
-
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
-
You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
-
You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
-
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
-
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
-
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
-
2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
-
When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
-
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!
-
Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
-
You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur.
-
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
-
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
-
Some people would say again that my attitudes are cold and cerebral; I suppose if you're thinking about American sentimental movies, I suppose they would be.
