"There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect."

-- Martin Filler

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“For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,”

Source : "Winning an Oscar: Blessing or Curse?" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. March 3, 2006.
“I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.”
“We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.”
“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
“Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.741, Northwestern University Press
“When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .”
“Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”

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