Peter Greenaway Quotes

All this narcissism is rather boring, isn't it?

Peter Greenaway

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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.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Car
  • Shoes
  • Outfit

• 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.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• 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.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Rock

• Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Phone

• If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Action
  • Never
  • Get

• 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.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • World
  • America

• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Criticism
  • Form
  • Boredom

• Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Important
  • Children
  • Health

• I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Me
  • Ask
  • Remain

• Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Nice
  • Opposition
  • Bone

• Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Great
  • Think
  • Humble

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mind
  • Child
  • Grief

• O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.

  

  Robert Frost
  • May
  • Fall
  • Morning

• When you're at a comedy club, if you're not funny, you don't work. People will let you know, whether it's by booing or yelling for you to get out of the club. People are drunk or whatever and they'll let you have it.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Drunk
  • Yelling
  • Comedy Club

• We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Trying
  • Humans
  • Being

• Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn’t spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Time
  • Food
  • Path

• The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Innocent

• All this narcissism is rather boring, isn't it?

  

  Peter Greenaway