Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.
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You move around at Fox depending on where they need you. That's what team players do. You pitch in. You know, you make it work.
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Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves.
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Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
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Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.
