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That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either.
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary.
Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.
In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.
Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.
You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d'art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
I want to offer a wide range of classic and contemporary bridalwear to suit all personalities, readily available to try on.
I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.
A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.
I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.
I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.