Tadao Ando Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.
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For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.
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When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
