Peter Greenaway Quotes
Inspiration: A miasma originating in the head that pollutes the body and irritates good sense.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
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People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.
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Inspiration: A miasma originating in the head that pollutes the body and irritates good sense.
