Peter Greenaway Quotes
A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
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My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.
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Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.
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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.
