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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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A hand cannot write on itself.
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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
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