Lt. Col. Frank Slade: How's your skin, son? I like my aides to be presentable. Charlie Simms: Well, I - I've had a few zits. Um, but my roommate, he lent me his Clinique because he's from... Lt. Col. Frank Slade: "The History of My Skin", by Charles ...
I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where is it located, what are the circumstances, where can I attack the problem, so to speak. How can you create a narrative for people moving through it?...
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
Surprise is key in all art.
Art can only be taught by artists.
If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.
In the marathon anything can happen.
I'm a very conceptual writer.
I'm just going to embrace every experience.
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
America has always imported history.
When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
Less is only more where more is no good.
It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
My skills are still my skills.
I no longer run barefoot.
I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.
I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.
