Christopher Alexander Quotes
Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love.
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
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I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.
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My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.
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Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
