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.

Michael Ian Black

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• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• 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?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Games
  • Fan
  • Yankees

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• 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.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • American
  • Car

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Architecture

• I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

  

  Donnie Iris
  • Inspiration
  • Shows

• Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

  

  Christian de Portzamparc
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Architecture

• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Choices
  • Architecture

• Architecture is definitely a political act.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Political
  • Architecture

• 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.

  

  Dante Ferretti
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Space
  • Architecture
  • Rain

• I am involved in the architecture of space.

  

  James Turrell
  • Space
  • Architecture

• 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?

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Good
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Scary

• I think our preparation has been good, we’ve worked extremely hard individually and as a team, and when it’s come to games the guys have stepped up and performed under pressure. That’s exactly what we need if we are to be very successful at this tournament. Under pressure the bowlers performed very well at the death, but now it’s about doing it when it counts. The best thing is we’ve got these experiences to call on when the tournament starts and we’re actually under real pressure when it really matters. Fingers crossed the guys can take all that confidence forward into the group games.

  

  Joe Root
  • Experience
  • Confidence
  • Games

• I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Terrorism
  • Roots
  • Call

• I serve and answer to the Texans I represent - not the Hollywood elite.

  

  Blake Farenthold

• 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.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Games
  • Architecture
  • Shows