Steven Holl Quotes
My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
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When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
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There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy:
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.
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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
