#ten

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#citizens #depreciate #future #just #more

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#because #best #bob #bob dylan #come

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#beatles #fan #gotten #huge #i

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#around #different #i #listen #lot

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#been #else #experimental #few #here

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#biggest #biggest mistake #conversation #listen #mistake

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#because #come #enough #every #existence

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#decade #each #i #long #novels

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#command #consider #extends #grows #i