Neri Oxman Quotes
Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
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I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.
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Bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
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Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.
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Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
