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Quotes by Designer
"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
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"If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments."
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"I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about."
39
"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
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"When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend."
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"We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything."
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"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."
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"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
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"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
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"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
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"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
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"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
38
"Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle."
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"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
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"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
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"I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire."
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"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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"Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe."
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"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."
38
"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."
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"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration."
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"I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first."
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"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
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