Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Museums, I love museums.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you're being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting you to come have this experience.

I don't make any rules.

The reason that we have rules is so that sometimes they can be suspended.

It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if it has become inconvenient for its present use, to raise another building rather than alter or enlarge the old one; in fine to treat our ancient buildings as monuments of a bygone art, created by bygone manners, that modern art cannot meddle with without destroying.

We choose not to be prescriptive in our regulations. We take a more general approach, offering guidelines.

In the entertainment industry, there remains one constant: change.