Peter Zumthor Quotes
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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I ate ants. They weren't that bad.
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Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.
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I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days.
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I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.
