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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it so I signed up for acting instead.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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. American Idol transcends age gender ethnicity everything.
  • 2. No one can avoid aging but aging productively is something else.
  • 3. Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.
  • 2. I think having children is the most amazing thing.
  • 3. I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it – she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

3 Anger

  • 1. Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
  • 2. I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
  • 3. Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

5 Architecture

  • 1. But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
  • 2. Even at the United Nations where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent one window not so great.
  • 3. People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course that's both liberating and alarming.
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