Peter Greenaway Quotes
This is the writing of Nagiko Kiyohara no Motosuke Sei Shonagon, and I know you to have blackmailed, violated and humiliated my father. I suspect you also of ruining my husband. You have now committed the greatest crime - you have desecrated the body of my lover. You and I now know that you have lived long enough.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.
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Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I think we're going in the right direction.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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This is the writing of Nagiko Kiyohara no Motosuke Sei Shonagon, and I know you to have blackmailed, violated and humiliated my father. I suspect you also of ruining my husband. You have now committed the greatest crime - you have desecrated the body of my lover. You and I now know that you have lived long enough.
