Doug Aitken Quotes
My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.
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T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?
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I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.
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Theatrical work means too much work or none.
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My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
