Peter Greenaway Quotes
Now, at this very minute, another thing is happening which we cannot hear because most paintings do not have a sound-track. Peter is inventing the word 'simony' to explain ecclesiastical purchase-power, for which, since his Church later exercised it so expertly, Simon Magus ought to be revered as a patron not a rogue.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.
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We have barely tapped the power that is ours. We are more than we know.
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People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
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... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.
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There is no shame in scars, Ismae.
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Now, at this very minute, another thing is happening which we cannot hear because most paintings do not have a sound-track. Peter is inventing the word 'simony' to explain ecclesiastical purchase-power, for which, since his Church later exercised it so expertly, Simon Magus ought to be revered as a patron not a rogue.
