Mario Botta Quotes
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.
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My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
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I must've been about 7 or 8 when I realized I wanted to perform in some way.
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Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
