Christopher Alexander Quotes
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
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I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.
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I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.
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Anchormen shouldn't cry.
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The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
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People are much more interesting than people realise.
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Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
