Astra Taylor Quotes
Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
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Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine.
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If people see that I'm fully committed to my chosen charities and fully engaged in their issues, maybe they'll click a link to find out more.
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Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.
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I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
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I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
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I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
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I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms.
