Steven Holl Quotes

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

Steven Holl

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• I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Children
  • Book
  • Stories

• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Show

• I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Feel
  • Doing
  • Guilty

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Generation
  • Dawn

• I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Walking

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Wine
  • Drink
  • Champagne

• Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Help
  • Motivated

• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Stage

• A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Rich

• The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Community
  • Israel
  • Conquer

• Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Court
  • Just Because

• I love honest men, and a I love a man who is loyal to women.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Men
  • Women
  • Honest

• This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Intense

• Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Great
  • May
  • Control

• Well, this man the T.V. interviewer of Jasper Johns, wanted to know why I stopped painting the so-called famous 'Silence of Duchamp'.. ..and he had said it was because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons.. ..But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don't mean to do it.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Money
  • Why
  • Painting

• When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Young
  • Television
  • Conspiracy

• I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

  

  O. Henry
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Never

• I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

  

  Steven Holl
  • Silence
  • Young
  • Grew Up