Peter Greenaway Quotes
I cannot keep a clock or a watch. They stop on me. Why won't time stay peacefully on my wrist? Is time not interested in me any more because I am dying?
Quotes to Explore
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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Life is short and progress is slow.
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.
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I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.
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It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.
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I cannot keep a clock or a watch. They stop on me. Why won't time stay peacefully on my wrist? Is time not interested in me any more because I am dying?
