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Helmut Jahn

"For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job."

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Donna Grant

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Donna Grant

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

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Donna Grant

"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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Donna Grant

"Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Helmut Jahn
"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity."

Creativity

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Helmut Jahn
"You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction."

Beauty

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Helmut Jahn
"America has always imported history."

History

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Helmut Jahn
"We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't."

Wood

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Helmut Jahn
"Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level."

Change

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Helmut Jahn
"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."

Building

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Helmut Jahn
"A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it."

People

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Helmut Jahn
"Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time."

Time

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Helmut Jahn
"In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings."

Europe

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Helmut Jahn
"For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job."

Fun

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