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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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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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
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In America everyone's fast.
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The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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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.
