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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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
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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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In the 1950's there was a kind of agreement that a good artist would do something in his picture that acknowledge the edge, but it was a question of doing something when you got to the edge. Cropping was something new. It came from photography and from w:Clement Greenberg. It was resisted as being too easy.
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It's a relentless regime with 'Misfits.' I'm actually a little bit nervous of it, because I know it's going to be so tough to film, but we have a good crack at it.
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Computer viruses have since become a worldwide problem. It begins to look as if parasites are inevitable in any system of life.
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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.
