Paul Goldberger Quotes

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

Paul Goldberger

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• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Song

• I'm quite good at not writing.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Quite

• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Done
  • Best

• You can't hire someone to practice for you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Practice
  • Someone

• One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Party
  • California

• Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Style

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Important
  • You
  • Film

• Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Roles
  • Flirty
  • Adulterous

• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Joy
  • Smile
  • Tears

• It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Up
  • Character
  • Attention

• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Wisdom

• I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it, six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit.

  

  Eminem
  • Lyrics

• For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Life
  • Faith

• Do not be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste. All are responsible to stockholders, and in my experience all are honorable men. But they must schedule what they can sell in the public market.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Control

• I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

  

  Marcello Giordani
  • Job
  • Father
  • Singing

• The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Up
  • Music
  • Art

• When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Joy
  • Gay
  • Speak

• Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Focus

• We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Country
  • Today
  • Existence

• The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Path
  • Competition

• Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Architecture
  • Sadness
  • Roof