Astra Taylor Quotes
There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'
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I like people who try to do big things.
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There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.
