"I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass."

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Source : "Man about the house". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

Kevin McCloud

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“When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.”
“I think that in general -- well, at least it's true for me -- you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.”
“I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.”
“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.”
“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”

Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)
“The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?”
“This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.”
“In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.”

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