Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd
Frank William George Lloydwas an American film director, scriptwriter and producer. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934-35...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 February 1886
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My two most valuable tools are an eraser in the drawing room and a sledge hammer on the build site.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.
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I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking
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If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn't drink afterward
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
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Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.