Astro Teller Quotes
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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There are companies trying to build business within Saudi Arabia, and what they find is that if they try to bring on locals and teach them how to become senior executives, they just don't show up to work. They are not predictable as to when they'll come in and how much of their hearts are into that opportunity.
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You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
