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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The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
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I really hope that I can be as good as some people think I can be. But I may never work again... and that's the reality of the film industry. So, it's nice but I wouldn't want to go into something feeing like I needed to prove that I was good enough to be there. Maybe in some ways, it makes me think: "Do you know what? Some people think I'm alright, so maybe I should go into a job thinking I'm not rubbish." But I don't really think about it.
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FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
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Architects don’t invent anything; they transform reality.
