Paul Goldberger Quotes
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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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.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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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.
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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.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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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.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it, six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit.
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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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.
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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.
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I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.
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Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight.
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The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.
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If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.
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Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
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Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
