Curtis W. Fentress Quotes
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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I'm a big supporter of immigration.
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Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
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You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
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Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
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I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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All you owe the public is a good performance.
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A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
