Peter Greenaway Quotes
It could be said now that all animals live in zoos, whether it is a zoo in Regent's Park, London or a Nigerian Game Reserve. Perhaps what's left to argue is only the zoo's quality.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
-
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
-
It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
-
My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
-
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
-
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
-
I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
-
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
-
I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
-
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
-
Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
-
I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
-
No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
-
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
-
My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
-
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
-
There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
-
I've got a very interesting background.
-
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.
-
I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.
-
Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.
-
I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
-
I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment.
-
It could be said now that all animals live in zoos, whether it is a zoo in Regent's Park, London or a Nigerian Game Reserve. Perhaps what's left to argue is only the zoo's quality.
