Peter Greenaway Quotes
It's a movie that bewilders some viewers and mesmerizes others. A man I met while we were exercising our dogs told me it was the greatest film he had ever seen, and one of my editors claims it's the closest any movie has ever come to photographing the inside of his mind.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I hate the domestic life.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.
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And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind
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So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.
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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
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I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.
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It's a movie that bewilders some viewers and mesmerizes others. A man I met while we were exercising our dogs told me it was the greatest film he had ever seen, and one of my editors claims it's the closest any movie has ever come to photographing the inside of his mind.
