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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. Our age knows nothing but reaction and leaps from one extreme to another.
  • 2. I'd always thought the Rats were good fun but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
  • 3. I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age I'm actually overweight.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world because not only are they the best thrift store – they're not the most thrifty thrift store – but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids mostly homeless kids living with AIDS and HIV in New York in the metropolitan area.
  • 2. Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
  • 3. I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

3 Anger

  • 1. I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational but I don't think that translates into anger.
  • 2. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
  • 3. Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
  • 2. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
  • 3. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Look architecture has a lot of places to hide behind a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
  • 2. I think that narrative fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater art history architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
  • 3. The process I go through in the art and the architecture I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
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