Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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ScienceArtArchitectureBreakfast

A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.

Matthew Desmond

WorkChangeCommunityTimeTogether

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

Michael Bastian

ArtObsessedFolkActuallyReally

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

Michael Chabon

WarWorldThinkPlaceNewWrite

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

Alvaro Enrigue

FunWritingBookHandsYouKind

On the other hand I have seen several, several top targets for these investigations of these terrorist activities that were allowed to leave the country - I'm not talking about weeks, I'm talking about months after 9/11.

Sibel Edmonds

TalkingCountryHandNot TalkingTop

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Shirley Hazzard

FearGreatAmericaCivilizationTurn

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

Tracy McGrady

TalentPracticeMeThinkYouKind

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

Robert Fisk

KnowMoreGetHappensInterested

Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop around, and you need to invest in its naturalistic reality more. But I love writing both, precisely because they're so different.

Mike Bartlett

LoveWritingTheatreRealityYou

Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.

Lisa Lutz

StrengthAgeManFamousHorseLift

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

FamilyStartToo MuchBloodNever

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Dolly Parton

RootsTreesTakeStormsMakeDeeper

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