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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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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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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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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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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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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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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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
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I am proud to say that I plastic-wrapped Bruno Ricci's toilet in his trailer.
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
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Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.
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We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."
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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?
