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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

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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. Old age: the crown of life our play's last act.
  • 2. Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
  • 3. The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
  • 2. I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples – Natalie Portman Joseph Gordon-Levitt Jodie Foster Drew Barrymore – of people who have made it through.
  • 3. So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it moving on.

3 Anger

  • 1. Never go to bed angry stay up and fight.
  • 2. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
  • 3. In the heat of our campaigns we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet on the whole our political process has served us well.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 2. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
  • 3. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
  • 2. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.
  • 3. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
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