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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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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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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I believe the gun has no power at all.
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In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
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People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.
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I try not to put myself in horrible situations anymore.
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It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make one-third of the money?" My answer is that I'm trying to do it ethically. What does that mean, exactly? That conflict is a big part of my art.
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This is what my calling is now. I'm here to try to help our party.
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When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum - a band - all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in Malmö, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe l’oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from ‘Black and the Red III’ and continued that on the wall.
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Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
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All this narcissism is rather boring, isn't it?
