Peter Greenaway Quotes
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.
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The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all
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Jung fiercely resented the implication that he was a hypocritical, self-seeking Judas, a 'rat'. Yet there was just enough truth in it to strike home. He was undoubtedly a man who liked his own way, no matter what the cost to others.
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The verb 'fuck' has been a part of the language since at least early 1500s. The actual practice, far longer. So, no need to be embarrassed of either.
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I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
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The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.
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If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
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The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
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Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs.
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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
