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.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
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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.
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Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you want to get technical about it, Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
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I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.
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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.
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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To make computer science more attractive to women, we might help young women change how they think about themselves and what's expected of them. But we might also diversify the images of scientists they see in the media, along with the decor in the classrooms and offices in which they might want to study or work.
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.
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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.
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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.
