Peter Greenaway Quotes
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
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Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
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I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
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Someone who says 'I am busy' is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
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It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.
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I would love for the world to be happier.
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Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
