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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
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Newport
South Wales
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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Investigation is never complete.
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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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There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
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English culture is highly literary-based.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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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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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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A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
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