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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
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