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

• Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Immigration

• What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private; that's me.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Life
  • Family
  • Dating

• Defensive lineman in the 3-4 isn't a glory position. He is supposed to tie up as many linemen as possible in order to free the linebackers.

  

  John Matuszak
  • Up
  • Free

• Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Question
  • Nation
  • Production

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

  

  Peter Greenaway