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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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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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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Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.
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I'm the daughter of one of the most long-standing senators in politics, and I have been given every opportunity that anyone could possibly dream of. I was given those opportunities as a result of the hard work from both sides of my family.
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Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
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After all, no matter how long you live, there aren't too many really delicious moments along the way, since most of life is spent eating and sleeping and waiting for something to happen that never does. You can figure it up for yourself, using your own life as the scoreboard. Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don't matter and about people that don't matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you're going to die.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.
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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.
