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 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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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented – and with a mature sense of the sacred – in Buddhism and Hinduism.
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Opposites and contradictions, that is our harmony.
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And Chaucer, with his infantineFamiliar clasp of things divine.
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.
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My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
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Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
