Doug Aitken Quotes
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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I am a total me, me, Me person.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.
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I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.
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I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.
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There's really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in.
