Astra Taylor Quotes
Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.
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I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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The effort that we put forth, it's not his fault. He put the guys in that he trusted, that he thought would get the job done.
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You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.
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Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too.
