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So the premise of The Submission is that theres an anonymous compe

So the premise of The Submission is that theres an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and its won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan. – Amy Waldman

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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. – Amy Waldman

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I am a fashion designer. Im not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one Im a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. – Stella McCartney

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In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. – Henry Watton

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Ive wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way Ive played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, Ive always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it. – Jack Nicklaus

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I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. – Mikhail Kalashnikov

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