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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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 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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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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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I never remember my parents having an argument.
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When I get bored, I get into trouble.
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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.
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One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
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Every large brand has franchisees and stores that don't make it. It's unfortunate, and Cold Stone did everything it could to support its franchisees, but some failure rate is part of the business.
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I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.
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Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.
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I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.
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Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
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I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
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I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.
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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
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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).
