Peter Greenaway Quotes
This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
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If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.
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I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
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I want to make sure I always show off my smile and have a positive attitude the whole time, whether it's during a performance, practice, or doing an interview.
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There is some good evidence man contributes to global warming. But I say, so what? We can deal with that. It's not a catastrophe. And cold is far worse for hurting people than warmth.
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This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.
