Karl Friedrich Schinkel Quotes
Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.
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Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice
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Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
