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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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
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I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.
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It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in Indian law in India so far, but I do believe that soon, we will come on par with respecting the individuality of people with different sexualities.
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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
