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I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
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