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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I get shitty scared. One show in Amsterdam, I was so nervous I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile-vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
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Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.
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If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
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Inspiration: A miasma originating in the head that pollutes the body and irritates good sense.
