"I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand."

-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.”
“There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.”
“Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.”
“All clients think that they are architects.”

Source : "Interview with Architect Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Philip Nobel, www.architecturaldigest.com. March 31, 2013.
“I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it happens, I think it's certainly going to be odd. People shouldn't see me as a sex symbol. I'm really just Henry. I'm just telling a story. I could be playing an incredibly unpleasant character who's not sexually attractive at all in my next movie. So I've no expectations at all.”
“I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation.”
“I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guyâ€™s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex, weâ€™re not the best communicators when it comes to talking to the women in our lives. I know Iâ€™m not â€“ but Iâ€™m much better when I have a pen and paper in my hand.”
“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.”

Source : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.18, Vintage

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