Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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It is a shame. A shame! If you believe this is a bad idea to provide health care - then vote no! But don't give me the cowardly view that 'Oh, if it was a different procedure.'
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An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.
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I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.
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I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'
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If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
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Architects don’t invent anything; they transform reality.
