Michael Graves Quotes

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

Michael Graves

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1934 - March 12, 2015

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I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

Jennifer Gilmore

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When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.

Melissa McCarthy

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Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago.

John Landis

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A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

Simon Sinek

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Of course you have to provide for the vulnerable and the children, but also, the vulnerable and the children need art in some form or another. You need spiritual experiences that, I think, forms of art give best.

Tony Harrison

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No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like.

Jonathan Krisel

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As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

David Slade

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Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

Bode Miller

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I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

Boy George

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I love roles where I have to transform myself.

Archie Panjabi

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Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

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