Mark Steyn Quotes
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.
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But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.
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... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.
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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.
