Christopher Alexander Quotes
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.
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I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'
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My kids completely understand that I may be on a huge show or in a big movie, but most of the time, they are not terribly impressed.
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I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
