Peter Zumthor Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
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From the first Lauren Luke tutorial I watched, I was completely taken with her.
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People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
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Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
