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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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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Category: Architecture

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. I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
  • 2. You can fake your age or mask it but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
  • 3. I think if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27 there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.
  • 2. Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.
  • 3. I think being on a TV show is amazing but also people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger elicits anger fear elicits fear no matter how well meaning we may be.
  • 2. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
  • 3. I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

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. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 3. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
  • 2. I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
  • 3. I see music as fluid architecture.
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