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Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized. Daniel Burnham
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Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
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So I test all the buildings that I do by asking myself whether this building was possible, could have been built 50 years ago or a hundred years ago. Minoru Yamasaki
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One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off. Lawrence Halprin
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Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.
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Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
american-architect client depended good
Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.
american-architect draw ought
And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.
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Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.
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The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written. Kass James
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There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again. Norman MacCaig
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There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.
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We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.
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We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.
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Where one burns books, one will soon burn people. Heinrich Heine
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I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. Nina Jacobson
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When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' Nicolas Roeg
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I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. Nikki Grimes
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
writers written
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate. Robert Klein
writers
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
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Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
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Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Aminatta Forna
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Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. Claire Tomalin
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
writers-and-writing
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul
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'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me. Ludivine Sagnier
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I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people. Lisa Cholodenko
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The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. Eric Schmidt
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me. Victoria Justice
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I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system. Wole Soyinka
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing. Errol Morris
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. Ferran Adria
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I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. Lyle Lovett