"We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth."

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Source : "The Next American System". Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

Paul Goldberger

#New York Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Tunnels Quotes

“You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.”
“When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.”
“Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.”
“I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.”
“I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.”
“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,â€ she said. â€œSee, thatâ€™s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.”
“I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.”
“Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets”

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