Thomas Heatherwick quotes
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“The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.”
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“I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses”
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“At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.”
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“Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.”
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“More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.”
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“Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.”
Source : "Adam Rayner Talks Tyrant, Joining the Show, Playing an Arab Character, Shocking Moments, Shooting the Pilot in Morocco, and His Character’s Motives". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2014.
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“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
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