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 -
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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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.
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
Laura Dern -
Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
Daniel A. D'Aniello
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
Origen -
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?
Jamais Cascio -
We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.
Alan Shepard -
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.
Dermot Healy -
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
Armstrong Williams -
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