Michael Ian Black Quotes
You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
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At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project - an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.
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I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.
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The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
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Architecture is definitely a political act.
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I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.
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I am involved in the architecture of space.
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Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
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Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.
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And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
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People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a buzz.
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I got known as the school swot, which wasn't me at all.
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You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.
