James Polshek Quotes
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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You have good days and bad days.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
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Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
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Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
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If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.
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I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
