Peter Greenaway Quotes
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
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I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.
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I am totally unattached to material items.
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I'm overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I've admired the careers they've made and can't wait to see how my musical path is paved out.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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All this narcissism is rather boring, isn't it?
