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.
Quotes to Explore
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Every wall is a door.
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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?
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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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.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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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.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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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.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.
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I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.
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Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.
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I never regretted what I turned down.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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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.
