Tadao Ando Quotes
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.
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I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.
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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
