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 was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
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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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Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey
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On a couple of occasions in the last weeks, I just said some things that weren‘t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And you know, I‘m embarrassed by it. I‘m very sorry I said it. I have said that, you know, it just didn‘t jive with what I had written about and knew to be the truth.
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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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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.
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Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.
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The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
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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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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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'How safe are we here?'
