Astro Teller Quotes
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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There will be many which will increase in their destruction.
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That quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
