Peter Greenaway Quotes
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
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I see what keeps people young: work!
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By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
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In our private lives in the last decade, we've gone through enormous change that has affected everything, from the way we do business to how we view intelligence and attention. We have to rethink it all in a more interactive, networked, and collaborative way.
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Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.
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Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
