Martin Freeman Quotes
The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
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Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
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Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep understanding of a single product.
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Sciatica: he cured it, by boyling his buttock.
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I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.
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I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
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Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.
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The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.
