Peter Greenaway Quotes
In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.
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I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.
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Throughout my career, I've been sponsored by several different equipment companies - Lynx, Titleist, Callaway.
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When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.
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One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation.
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In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.
