Peter Greenaway Quotes
If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
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They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
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If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?
