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" And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time. "

Frank Gehry

Time

Meetings

People

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" For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. "

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" I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible. "

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" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "

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" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "

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