Daniel Libeskind Quotes

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

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• I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Essence
  • Creature

• I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Real
  • Go
  • Fast

• Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Deep
  • Friendship
  • Roots

• I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • City
  • Proud
  • Paris

• I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Strange

• I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Fun
  • Years
  • Have Fun

• Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Day
  • Dreams
  • Socialism

• With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Wall
  • Street

• The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

  

  Manny Farber
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Story

• Hey, once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl. It will always be a big deal - it's an exclusive club.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Bond

• Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• When you fell in the sea, you should have heard them cheer. I made them rope the yard and fish you up. I said a ducking in water washes the witch-skill out of a woman until next full moon, and it would be bad luck to let you drown. How about that for a clever story? They’d believe anything if you make it sound silly enough.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Parents

• People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Care

• Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Home
  • She
  • Action

• If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Life
  • Listening
  • Voice

• 'To hell with the handkerchief,' said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

  

  James Thurber
  • Proud
  • Smile
  • Squad

• It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

  

  Daniel Libeskind