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 think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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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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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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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'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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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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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.
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No one can be certain what the future will bring. No one can say whether the time has come for an easing of the struggle. But history and our own conscience will judge us harsher if we do not now make every effort to test our hopes by action. And this is the place to begin.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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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?
