Tadao Ando Quotes
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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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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Women just love to shop.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.
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It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.
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It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.
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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
