Steven Holl Quotes

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

Steven Holl

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LightExperienceArchitectureSpace

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

Jessye Norman

LearningDoingWantMoreExploring

I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

Jesse Eisenberg

PeopleListeningVoiceThinkMovies

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

Matt Lucas

LifeFunWithoutOffShowingBit

Chicago is a wonderful, vibrant city with wonderful food cultures to it, wonderful talent downtown.

Steve Easterbrook

FoodTalentCityChicagoCultures

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

Stephen Sondheim

SongStoryEnjoyBackStageSinger

I bargain-shop all the time, but then I started learning about how those products are made and about how if you spend a little bit more money on ethical clothing that are using recycled materials - like, my favorite dresses are by Christy Dawn... the carbon footprint that they're leaving is so minimal, and it's really worth the extra money.

Torrey DeVitto

LearningTimeMoneyDawnWorthYou

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

Ronnie Spector

HairLovedYouKnowWayOpening

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

Lois Lowry

MeShowing UpWantOutUpFiction

I'm like a teenage boy - I eat like one and know as much cooking as one. Neither do I bake, and I can always be counted on to bring the wine to a pot luck.

Julia London

CookingLuckWineI CanKnowBoy

One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.

Alissa Quart

SupportFinancialDoingHardship

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

Phyllis Logan

PeopleCoursePoshAboutUpper-Class

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Thomas P. Campbell

LiveChallengeWorldSeeingCrisis

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