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" As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given. "
Kevin McCloud
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" Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma. "
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" What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think. "
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Looking
Thinking
Think
" 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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Design
Glass
Cool
" The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger. "
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See
Champion
" I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. "
Kevin McCloud
Absurd
Like
Brothers
" A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone. "
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Energy
People
Great
" I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political. "
Kevin McCloud
Driven
Political
Issues
" When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long. "
Kevin McCloud
University
Without
Focus
" Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family. "
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House
Building
Own
" Your home should be about enriching the daily experience. "
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Daily
Your
Experience
" A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke. "
Kevin McCloud
She
Silly
Know
" I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve. "
Kevin McCloud
Value
People
Trying
" The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes. "
Kevin McCloud
Life
Private Life
Public Domain
" Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich. "
Kevin McCloud
You
Building
Opportunity
" I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.' "
Kevin McCloud
People
Hate
Dislike
" There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money. "
Kevin McCloud
Reason
Imagination
Your
" I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing. "
Kevin McCloud
Like
Avoid
Fair
" You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence. "
Kevin McCloud
You
Democratic
Excellence
" Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung. "
Kevin McCloud
Eat
Car
Lifestyle
" Building design isn't trendy. "
Kevin McCloud
Design
Trendy
Building
" Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet. "
Kevin McCloud
Breath
Human
Planet
" I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me. "
Kevin McCloud
Who
Money
Me
" I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it. "
Kevin McCloud
Country
Farm
God
" I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything. "
Kevin McCloud
Buy
Harm
Want
" I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes. "
Kevin McCloud
Poor
Growing Up
Clothes
" People have got to get over the fear of not being able to trust others. I come across people who are very successful in their own sphere, and really believe they can do it all themselves, but they can't. "
Kevin McCloud
Believe
Successful
Trust
" I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that. "
Kevin McCloud
Scenery
Theatre
Successful
" Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it. "
Kevin McCloud
Desire
Own
Building
" I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch. "
Kevin McCloud
Conversation
Yourself
I Am
" I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled. "
Kevin McCloud
Follows
Anyone
Less