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Go Quotes
Quotes on moving forward.
These quotes are about pushing something forward - a producer's refusal to let a project go, and the long chain of approvals a show has to go through before it airs. Related reading includes Back Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the bedsit culture: people get a cat, and then, in a few months, when they move on or go travelling, they just throw the animal out. It's so discouraging.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020