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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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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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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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 wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens's creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.
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In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
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Getting to the top is one thing, but staying there is quite another. That's the difficult bit.
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I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.
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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.
