Kevin McCloud Quotes
I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
Quotes to Explore
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
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I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
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Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
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I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.
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The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
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I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
