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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As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.
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Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.
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Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the book as opposed to hypothetical situations, or as opposed to opening up about themselves, unless they really want to.
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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.
