Peter Greenaway Quotes
I sit here for hours. It's like sitting amongst lighthouses, each lighthouse giving you a bearing on lost spaces of time...
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
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What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?
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Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
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In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
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I sit here for hours. It's like sitting amongst lighthouses, each lighthouse giving you a bearing on lost spaces of time...
