Old Buildings quotes

My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.
-- Andy Barrie

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I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys.
-- Donnie Fritts

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I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.
-- Farah Diba

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Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
-- John Osborne

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There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.
-- Richard Moe

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Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'
-- Whit Stillman

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I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.
BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
When the five of our voices come together, there is a special something there. That is something that I know.
At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?
What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!
I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.