Astra Taylor Quotes
New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
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I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.
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We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.
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Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles
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We were mighty short of infielders in those days
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In the B-52s, we employ a lot of people. It's a machine that keeps it all going, which is wonderful.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
