Peter Greenaway Quotes
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.
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I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.
