Peter Greenaway Quotes
It's strange. In the last five minutes you have used my Christian name over and over again and never before. People I like learn my name too late.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.
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People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
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Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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It's strange. In the last five minutes you have used my Christian name over and over again and never before. People I like learn my name too late.
