Christopher Lasch Quotes
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
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People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
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I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted. You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days.
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Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.
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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
