Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
Quotes to Explore
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.
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One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
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I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
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When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
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There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
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No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
