Danah Boyd Quotes
The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.
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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
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Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
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I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.
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When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.
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The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.
