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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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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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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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 feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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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.
