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" I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture. "
Kevin McCloud
Enjoy
Small
Shadows
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" 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
" Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool. "
Kevin McCloud
Land
Off
Paddling
" We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet. "
Kevin McCloud
Future
Now
Society
" My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew. "
Kevin McCloud
Engineer
Father
Knew
" 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. "
Kevin McCloud
Design
Glass
Cool
" I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. "
Kevin McCloud
Absurd
Like
Brothers
" 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 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
" I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. "
Kevin McCloud
Buildings
Look
Without
" 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
" 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
" I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league. "
Kevin McCloud
Time
Money
Friends
" Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family. "
Kevin McCloud
House
Building
Own
" There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money. "
Kevin McCloud
Reason
Imagination
Your
" If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface. "
Kevin McCloud
Fall
Day
Time
" You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence. "
Kevin McCloud
You
Democratic
Excellence
" Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. "
Kevin McCloud
Pretty
Sexiest
Doing
" I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled. "
Kevin McCloud
Follows
Anyone
Less
" 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 your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it. "
Kevin McCloud
Desire
Own
Building
" 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. "
Kevin McCloud
Luxury
See
Champion
" I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. "
Kevin McCloud
House
Family
Symmetry
" When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long. "
Kevin McCloud
University
Without
Focus
" 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
" Life involves other people and it is a compromise. "
Kevin McCloud
Life
People
Other
" Your home should be about enriching the daily experience. "
Kevin McCloud
Daily
Your
Experience
" It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered? "
Kevin McCloud
Life
Events
Cake
" I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political. "
Kevin McCloud
Driven
Political
Issues
" I spend a frightening amount of money on books. "
Kevin McCloud
Books
Frightening
Money