Walter Tevis Quotes

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

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• We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Money
  • Want
  • Building

• There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Children
  • History
  • House

• As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Long
  • Building

• You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Building

• For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Free

• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Building

• I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Building

• We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Building
  • Pressure

• Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Earth
  • Building

• Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Focus
  • Challenge

• If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • World
  • Best
  • Building

• We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

  

  Orville Wright
  • New
  • Building
  • Feet

• I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Start
  • First
  • Building

• Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Building
  • Nation

• The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Lost

• Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Building
  • Appearance
  • Balls

• I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Life
  • Theatre
  • Building

• Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Culture
  • Building
  • Sort

• I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Story
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Scary
  • Dangerous
  • Edges

• New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

  

  Walter Tevis
  • Building
  • Graves
  • Empire