Peter Greenaway Quotes
No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
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It's better to do a film that works.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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You have to open up on stage.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.
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But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp.
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And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
