Daniel Libeskind Quotes

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

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• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • You
  • Anger
  • Guilt

• 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 still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Angry
  • Two
  • Getting

• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Problem
  • Opinion
  • Yourself

• 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

• For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Business
  • War
  • Peace

• 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

• A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • You
  • Exercise
  • Pencil

• There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Fall

• Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.

  

  Ambrose Burnside
  • Remember
  • Support

• The role was very physically challenging and I am not athletic and have never wanted to be. I hate it in fact. I don't go to gyms and for me to have to stay in shape for the role became mind over matter.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Mind
  • Hate

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

  

  Daniel Libeskind