"As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life."

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Source : Source: www.archdaily.com

Santiago Calatrava

#Acting Quotes #Building Quotes #Force Quotes

“I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not”

Source : Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.
“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: â€œThis is where the novel should actually start.â€ A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“It takes two hands to clap.”
“Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.”
“The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.”

Source : Speech at the First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan, April 01, 2001.
“I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear about his life and how he got started and when did he think he made it, stupid stuff like that. And what his relationship with the mainstream is because he's so far out there, but then he became part of the mainstream in this weird way. He was really funny, though. Yeah, I have to work on my jokes.”
“It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.”

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