Astra Taylor Quotes

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

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• I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Know
  • See

• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Cherish

• I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Testosterone

• Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Myself
  • Genius
  • Say

• What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Women
  • Care
  • Unemployment

• What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • You
  • Better

• If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Power
  • Black

• You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Art
  • Rest

• If you want to get technical about it, Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Rocky

• One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Player
  • Unique
  • Hero

• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Small
  • Church

• Growing up, I think I was arrested 20-odd times by the Boston police. The good news is that I've been able to use those experiences in a lot of my roles, and that has been a blessing.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

  

  David Mamet
  • Important
  • Society
  • Wish

• There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Democracy

• I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.

  

  Emilie de Ravin
  • Disney

• I made a decision that I wanted to do five years of classical theatre before I did anything else, which was a very unfashionable thing to do.

  

  Victoria Hamilton
  • Decision
  • Theatre

• When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed.

  

  George C. Wolfe

• The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Today
  • Sex

• The core constituency that Republicans must satisfy in high court nominations is the party's social conservative base, which fundamentally cares about issues, not diversity, and has accepted white men who practice the judging it admires.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Diversity
  • Judging
  • Republicans

• That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Bad
  • Advice

• Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Sometimes
  • Path
  • Stupid

• One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

  

  Astra Taylor