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The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.

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Robert A. M. Stern
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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. Filth and old age I'm sure you will agree are powerful wardens upon chastity.
  • 2. The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
  • 3. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

2 Amazing

  • 1. If you're curious London's an amazing place.
  • 2. I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup which is an amazing two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.
  • 3. 'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

3 Anger

  • 1. All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
  • 2. The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
  • 3. I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration anger shame helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration that sense of unfairness and multiply it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
  • 2. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
  • 3. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth at it's best.
  • 2. Each new situation requires a new architecture.
  • 3. Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.
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