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"Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds."

"I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that."

"If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple."

"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."

"Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?"

"Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult."
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"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."


"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."


"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."


"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."


"You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today."


"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have."


"People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect."


"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
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