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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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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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.
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When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.
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The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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I'm not afraid to work.
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A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.
