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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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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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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And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and do more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.
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Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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When you know you can run forever on court, you're not worried that you can play three sets. I think this is really important for your confidence.
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In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.'
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Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
