Gae Aulenti Quotes
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
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But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.
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River City Improv set the stage for my career.
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Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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Light is impressionism.
