Peter Greenaway Quotes
I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not.
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Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.
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The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.
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I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.
