Peter Greenaway Quotes
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
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When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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I love making shorts out of jeans, or customizing denim. Basically, I like to rip and distress things... I love that look.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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Piano is like drudgery.
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A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception (Anant-darshana), perfect knowledge (Anant-jnana), perfect power (Anant-virya), and perfect bliss (Anant-sukha).
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We say that this fake regime (Zionist) cannot logically continue to live. (April 24, 2006) 12
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Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?
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I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
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There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground
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