Peter Greenaway Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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I'm kind of a recluse.
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I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
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If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
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Scared out of his seven senses.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist’s activity. . . . . In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
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La principale difficulté pour vulgariser la physique quantique, c'est qu'on ne sait pas très bien comment en fabriquer des images dans notre monde. C'est en ce sens qu'elle est vraiment contre-intuitive.
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I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.
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For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
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'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
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What we are is God’s gift to us; what we become is our gift to God.’ – Anon.
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The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself, of change over periods of time: in a word, of evolution.
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Delivery: A postal or natal event.
