Astra Taylor Quotes
I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I find the business world hard.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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Collecting is my passion.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I got so pissed I took a little poll to see if anyone was sick of gettin' taxed as much as I am. I called 100 people one night and here's the results: everyone I polled said, 'You dumb ass, it's three o'clock in the morning!' (p. 131).
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I never remember my parents having an argument.
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If I were white, I could capture the world.
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When I get bored, I get into trouble.
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The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.
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Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney.
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We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.
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I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).
