Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
