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Christopher Alexander Quotes

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

Christopher Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1936

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Power People Reality Buildings Way

I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?

Character Journey Moment People Road

When we go city by city, country by country, the majority of our hosts, our owners, are simply renting out their spare bedroom.

City Country Go Bedroom Out Simply

When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for special occasions.

Angela Robinson

Father Me Growing Up Hair Growing

When I listen to an American singer, I wanna listen to his music in his language, because he's more spontaneous - he's more natural - and I need his point of view. And our point of view here in Brussels is French and Flemish.

Music Language American View Need

Some people say that 'Drag Race' is about glory and immortalizing yourself in the Hall of Fame. For me, it's about shaking RuPaul down for her money.

Money Yourself People Me Down Glory

I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work.

Work Fun Having Fun Partying Got

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Change Think Done Now Write Expect

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

Me Writing Start Action Book Long

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Morning Best Day I Can Write Half

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

Richard Linklater

Think You Trouble Big Get Studio

If there was one key to happiness in love and life and possibly even success, it would be to go into each conversation you have with this commandment to yourself front and foremost in your mind, 'Just Listen' and be more interested than interesting, more fascinated than fascinating, and more adoring than adorable.

Life Love Success Happiness Yourself

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Marjane Satrapi

Life Beginning People End Bad People

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