Peter Greenaway Quotes
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I never left doo wop.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
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If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.
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Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?
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The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.
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I'm not gay.
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A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
