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Peter Eisenman Quotes

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: August 11, 1932

Topics

History Humor Me Kind Right Jewish

Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.

Michael Hastings

Work Family Nature Service Deep

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

John Perry Barlow

Waiting Party Moral Compass Backbone

My confidence came from the way I grew up, and I'm grateful for it.

Amanda Lindhout

Confidence Grateful Way Up Came

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

Me Think Down Write Mess Out

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Writing Book Reading Short Traveled

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Marya Hornbacher

Time Childhood Window Control You

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

Change Order Unpopular Behaviour

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

Worry Finding Done Next Almost

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

Character Start Face Finding You

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

Feel Know Observation Personal Way

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

Work Architecture You I Can Know

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

Popularity Seems Almost Fact In Fact

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