Alan Kay Quotes

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Alan Kay

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John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

Jerry Saltz

WomenBalanceMeNewNeverKnowing

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Robert Sheckley

ReadingOutsideForeverWellField

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

Spike Jonze

WhySomethingDid

My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

Skylar Grey

MusicGreatMomTopRadioSinger

You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.

Roberto Orci

ViewYouWantTestFirstSee

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

Joseph Brodsky

I AmPoetryAmericanCountrySee

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

Jon Meacham

DayThinkFateQuestionsAnswer

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

Diane von Furstenberg

BirthdayChildrenExcusesPartyOut

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

Brad Anderson

StepMeTryingMoviesScreenOff

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Annalee Newitz

DoctorTrackingWiredArmConvinced

I feel that since I was a little, little person, I knew that one of my life goals was to tell stories and bring joy to people.

Annaleigh Ashford

LifeGoalsJoyPeopleFeelMy Life

Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.'

Ashley Nell Tipton

MeEndSeeingDreamNowLiving

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