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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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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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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Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
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I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.
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I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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Accept a miracle instead of wit,-See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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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?
