Peter Greenaway Quotes
Jerome never liked me - preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature - all swear-words and scatology - before it became fashionable.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
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Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over,Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past,Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover,Sleeping at last.
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At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
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I bossed my middle sister around all the time.
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There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids.
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Jerome never liked me - preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature - all swear-words and scatology - before it became fashionable.
