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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
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All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.
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I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.
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Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.
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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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