Peter Greenaway Quotes
Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
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Τὴν πεπρωμένην δὲ χρὴαἶσαν φέρειν ὡς ῥᾷστα, γιγνώσκονθ' ὅτιτὸ τῆς ἀνάγκης ἔστ' ἀδήριτον σθένος.
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I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't imagine going through that. If you know that's going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I'd rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?
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That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.
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Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?
