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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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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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I always loved those early Elton John albums. I sort of keep going back there,
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I'm a big music fan outside of the music I make.
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I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time - go get a chef and a nutritionist - and I brought them on board.
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I'll have ten grams of rice, Mrs. Bass interrupted, one tenth of a hectogram of shrimp vindaloo, a dekagram of chana aloo masala, one thousand centigrams of tandori salmon, four samosas with surface area of nineteen cubic centimeters, five deciliters of mango lassi, and a sada rava dosai that's exactly nineteen centimeters long.
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As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people who wanted to make it into a movie. Even though it ultimately didn't work to do that movie, I did work with some of the other writers and by myself writing a script for that.
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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?
