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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We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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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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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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Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.
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in 1943, many Germans went to the Wright household and held musicals.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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It was kind of a lackluster game. We did what we needed to do to win.
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We wanted them to have to shoot over us.
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Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.