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"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."
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Personal Development
"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."
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Personal Development
"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."
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"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."
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"Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes."
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"I'll name names, you know I won't hold back."
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"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
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"I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible."
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"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."
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"The right name is an advertisement in itself."
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"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."
Beginning
"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."
Beauty
"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
Building
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
Simplicity
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
Certainty
"The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox."
Name
"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
Age
"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
Work
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
Winning
"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."
Architecture
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