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.
Patricia Velasquez
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
Taylor Caldwell
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup
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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.
Eddie Marsan
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
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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.
Katharine Cornell
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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.
Carlos Ghosn
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
Baldwin Spencer
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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.
Abby Wambach
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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.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
Dan Coats
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
Tamron Hall
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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.
Adam Dell
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
Irina Shayk
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West
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I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'
Mads Mikkelsen
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People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
Paul Theroux
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I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
Jon Favreau
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With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.
Ava DuVernay
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But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.
John Anderson
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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.
Peter Greenaway