"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."

-- Walter Benjamin

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“I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.”
“I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.”

Source : "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonatahan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.
“I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.
“I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.”
“The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.”
“We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.”
“The Morriganâ€™s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddessesâ€™ night out on the battlefield.”
“In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society”

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