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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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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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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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
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As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
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King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.
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Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.
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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.
