Danah Boyd Quotes
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
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A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.
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No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.
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Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.
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When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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You're not the same after, say, an incredible love affair that went very well or a love affair that went bad. Or something that happens to your health, or something that happened to somebody else's health, that is close to you. Or something that happens professionally.
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I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
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Nature constantly imitates art.
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I've never done online dating.
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I`'ll make it official. I care about Don Draper and what happens to him and I'm not the only one who does.
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But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.
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If you really need to, you have to make it happen.
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One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.
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It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.
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If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
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What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.
