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 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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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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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.
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People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
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Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.
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From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: "What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend?" Jester laughed. "She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her." Myrnin. "Shut up," I said, and kicked him in the face.
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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.
