Peter Greenaway Quotes
The whole of this studio is bonded; that is to say, we are not officially in Japan per se, but rather, in what is considered for these purposes an adjunct of the customs shed at Narita airport. Officially, we are not here because we are pornographic. It's a rather curious situation.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
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Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected.
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I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.
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Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
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Another Visitor: How did you manage, Monsieur Degas, when you painted that plein air called 'Le Plage', the one Monsieur Rouart has? Degas: It was quite simple. I spread my flannel vest on the floor of the studio, and had the model sit on it. You see, the air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.
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If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
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We release records, but we just make distribution deals. We have our own label. Everything online. The worldwide web has changed most everything.
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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
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I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.
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To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
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The whole of this studio is bonded; that is to say, we are not officially in Japan per se, but rather, in what is considered for these purposes an adjunct of the customs shed at Narita airport. Officially, we are not here because we are pornographic. It's a rather curious situation.
