Peter Eisenman Quotes
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
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God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.
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My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.
