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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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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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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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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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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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.
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Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
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It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.
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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.
