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Michael Graves Quotes

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Architecture Book Century Oldest

The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.

Universe Place Mortgage Point Where

You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how characters can become deeply involving for an audience.

Think Long You Become Storytelling

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

Jennifer Gilmore

Past Me Research Story Find Way

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

Nature Good Yourself Control Woods

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

Life Animal Reality Universe Way

Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.

Robert Greenwald

People Safety Political Risk Line

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.

Memories Time Texas University Some

Personally, for my character, I started as the silent but deadly type.

Character Silent Started Personally

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

Learning Father Time Parenting You

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

Expectations Facts Pressure You

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

Mind Window Looking Look Image Out

There are a lot of bad people in football, and players can be afraid to go to stadiums and get abused.

Antoine Griezmann

Football People Bad People Bad Go

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