Cecil Balmond famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
As a child I wanted to become an architect.
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

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