Peter Greenaway Quotes
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!
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People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?
