Peter Greenaway Quotes
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.
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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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When you’re only doing it for one play and you’re just not where you’re supposed to be, and freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, boy are you going to clean somebody’s clock for that one play.
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The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise!
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If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.
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The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.
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It takes a lot of doing to die.
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'We must ask Kito to come over.'
