Peter Greenaway Quotes
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I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
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I believe in goodnessMercy and charityI believe in a universal spiritI believe in casting breadUpon the waters
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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
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The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.
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I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.
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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
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Photography is the product of complete alienation.
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There's no way out of here.
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'I want to know what it says,' he answered, looking steadily in her face. 'The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?'
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'How safe are we here?'
