Peter Greenaway Quotes
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.Peter Greenaway
Quotes to Explore
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Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
Felix Dennis -
We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
Narendra Modi -
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
Sam Abell -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
Tcheky Karyo
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
Karan Singh Grover -
I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
Rachael Taylor -
In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
Karl Rove -
My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
Katee Sackhoff -
Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
Rachel Maddow -
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
Aaron Paul -
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett -
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
Ira Sachs
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I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.
Jemima Kirke -
I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.
Anna Torv -
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman Rushdie -
Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.
Eva Green -
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.
Peter Greenaway