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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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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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 don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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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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You've got something really angsty for me to play? Bring it on. Most of the time, I'm goofing around and doing impressions of people, so that's nice.
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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I was making myself a hotdog and pulling some curly fries out of the oven, and I got the call from manager, and she said, 'You got it. You're Betty Cooper.' It felt so unreal.
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I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
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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).
