"Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap."

-- David Chipperfield

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“Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.”
“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.”
“Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men”
“To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what that emotional timbre what is my favorite, my favorite "why" is the question. The other songs also have a revealing quality, but it started with "Sister OK".”

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“The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.”
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

Source : Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.24, Vintage
“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
“I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?”

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