Peter Greenaway Quotes
I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.
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For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.
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I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.
