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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.
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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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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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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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.
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