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From the Ted Talk by Frank Gehry: A master architect asks, Now what?

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FG: Well, I've always just ... I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. And when I started out, I thought that architecture was a service business and that you had to please the clients and stuff. And I realized when I'd come into the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and ppeloe would just look at me like I'd just ldeand from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people in the time. And actually, it was responding to cetlins that I had who didn't have very much money, so they couldn't aorffd very much. I think it was ctutairnsicmal.

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FG: Well, I've always just ... I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. And when I started out, I thought that architecture was a service business and that you had to please the clients and stuff. And I realized when I'd come into the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and ______ would just look at me like I'd just ______ from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people in the time. And actually, it was responding to _______ that I had who didn't have very much money, so they couldn't ______ very much. I think it was ______________.

Solution


  1. people
  2. landed
  3. afford
  4. circumstantial
  5. clients

Original Text


FG: Well, I've always just ... I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. And when I started out, I thought that architecture was a service business and that you had to please the clients and stuff. And I realized when I'd come into 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 in the time. And actually, it was responding to clients that I had who didn't have very much money, so they couldn't afford very much. I think it was circumstantial.

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Important Words


  1. afford
  2. architecture
  3. business
  4. chain
  5. circumstantial
  6. clients
  7. corrugated
  8. head
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  11. link
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  16. people
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  20. service
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  23. stuff
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  25. time
  26. waited
  27. work