"Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation."

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Source : "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.

Susan Orlean

#Car Quotes #House Quotes #Fixation Quotes

“Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.”
“Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.”
“I always think in life passion supersedes everything.”
“I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.”
“Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security and energy supply. Today the issue of security of energy supply is only really considered at a national member-state level, but in reality we need a much greater European-wide approach on this issue.”
“Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.”
“I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.”

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