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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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George Bernard Shaw
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Category: Anniversary

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
  • 2. For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
  • 3. After thirty a body has a mind of its own.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg making home movies as a teenager either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.
  • 2. Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.
  • 3. I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

3 Anger

  • 1. Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
  • 2. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
  • 3. A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off roused me into productivity and creativity.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. I see music as fluid architecture.
  • 2. If I have a style I am not aware of it.
  • 3. An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
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