- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.
- Knife
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it's important not to confuse the tool for the content, as some designers under 30 do.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.
- Choreograph
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public brings our buildings to life, and we try to choreograph a lot of things, but our most successful work functions in unanticipated ways. Like the Blur Building. When little kids got in there, they cried or laughed or ran around. And no matter how much theory we put on top of it, it didn't matter: it worked.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I appeal to everyone who understands what it is to have kids in school, have a mortgage, to work for a living; to have someone in their family or in their life who is less-abled and who is going to need help from the government.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband and I work for a living.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a job as a reporter in India, where I lived with several married couples, which got me interested in why some marriages work and others fail. Back home, many women of my generation were also putting off marriage or not getting married at all, which only led me to more questions.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very genetically blessed; I cannot deny it, but I work hard at keeping myself together. Yes, I have nice cheekbones and skinny legs, but I can't take any credit for it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020