Tadao Ando Quotes
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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You have to be yourself.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.
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I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
