"In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures."

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Source : Frank O. Gehry, Vlado Milunić (2003). “Dancing building”

Frank Gehry

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“At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'”
“Let life unfold, say what you mean. You canâ€™t always think about what youâ€™ve lost, or what you donâ€™t have, or what you didnâ€™t get. Because when you do that, youâ€™re missing out on the now. You canâ€™t know if youâ€™ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.”
“Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.”
“The facts are always less than what really happened.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.76, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.”
“In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.”
“The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!”
“My uncle was the first one in my family to get a telephone. It was like going to the moon. He came running over to tell us, and we were so proud. A telephone! We didn't have to go to the candy store to phone any more. We went around telling everyone. But we didn't hear from my uncle for three days, so my father got worried. He said, Let's go over there. We got there, and my uncle was very depressed. I asked, What's the matter? He said, I got a telephone and nobody called me. He didn't give his number out - he didn't know that you had to!”

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