Cynthia Rowley Quotes
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.
