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Peter Eisenman Quotes

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Believe Design Because Idea

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

Jennifer McMahon

Medical Looks Grandmother Books Some

I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.

Myself Money Hat People Me Flying

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.

John Ralston Saul

People You Look Back Go Say

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

History Comedy You Look Always Been

I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Woman Go Intuition Just Supernatural

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

Work Chance Accident Idea Form Too

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

Miranda Cosgrove

Acting Play Never Pretty Different

If you're a member of my family, whether immediate or extended, and you want to see my show, don't.

Chelsea Handler

Family You Want See Show Member

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Business Government Present You Tax

Both my father and I remodeled our homes but were quite careful about preserving the history and unique character of the community.

Father Character Community History

We can remake the world daily.

Daily World Remake

The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

Rhianna Pratchett

Problem You Distance Know Way Talk

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