Peter Greenaway Quotes
I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers - all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences - it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
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The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
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For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.
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I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
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I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers - all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences - it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
