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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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 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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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.
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Everything is being televised so you won't be able to tell where the Revolution is. 'Who's revolting? Well, I don't know, what's on the other channel?'
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'We must ask Kito to come over.'
