"Time had changed the magical to mundane"

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Rohinton Mistry

#Changed Quotes #Mundane Quotes

“Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.
“To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!”
“The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.”

Source : "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.
“Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.”
“I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.”
“I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.”
“Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!”

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