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  • The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province where the panda sanctuary is based, and we climbed to this beautiful, mist-covered, almost primordial place and when we turned these corners these moss covered old buildings would come into view, revealing themselves and it was so beautiful and so unlike anything we'd seen that we literally took those moments and put them into the film [Kung Fu Panda 3].

    "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.
  • I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

    Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.
  • You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

  • Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

    "'Spanish enjoy time with their family instead of their Blackberry', says Gwyneth Paltrow". www.dailymail.co.uk. July 1, 2009.
  • New ideas often need old buildings.

  • If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

  • An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

  • I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.

  • In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

    "Modern Music Masters: Nellie McKay". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 3, 2010.
  • I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

    Block   Cutting   Years  
    Source: abilitymagazine.com
  • Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

  • People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

  • Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

    Interview with Jaspreet Pandohar, www.bbc.co.uk. June 15, 2005.
  • In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.

    Beautiful   Home   Past  
    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

  • Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

  • It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.

    Wall   Men   Dust  
    Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.211
  • There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them.

    Jonathan Hale (1994). “The Old Way of Seeing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol, there’s nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. But there is no give to the surface - only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.

    Beautiful   Wall   Taken  
    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.
  • 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.

  • Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

  • You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have.

    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

    Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.3, University of Illinois Press
  • Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

    'The Entertainer' (1957) no. 7
  • Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

    Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.188, Vintage
  • Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

    Wise   Spring   Rain  
    Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.190, Penguin
  • I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • New ideas must use old buildings

    Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.188, Vintage
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