Peter Greenaway Quotes
Esmerelda, the grieving widow, continues to burn and scream. In our minds we rush to save her from the consuming flames. But cannot.
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People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'
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I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
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All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
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When you have to work, work with a smile.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
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When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
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When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.
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Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.
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Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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I call on religious and political leaders in Myanmar to unequivocally condemn all forms of incitement to hatred, including this abhorrent public personal attack, it's intolerable for U.N. Special Rapporteurs to be treated in this way.
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Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
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Esmerelda, the grieving widow, continues to burn and scream. In our minds we rush to save her from the consuming flames. But cannot.
