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"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
"You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure."
"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."
"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."
"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."
"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."
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"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
"Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up."
"Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible."
"At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that."
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