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"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
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"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."
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"If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings."
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"It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution."
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"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."
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"A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
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"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing."
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"So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school."
Being
"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."
Writing
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
Church
"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
Travel
"So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy."
Religion
"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers."
Being
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
Design
"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know."
Hell
"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
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