Peter Greenaway Quotes
The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.
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Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing.