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There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.
The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.
Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.
Contemporary Swedish artists that chose Swedish as their language tended to sing about certain topics and use words I wanted to avoid.
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
There was a story saying I didn't like contemporary comedians, but it's completely untrue - a lot of them are very dear friends of mine.
Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
Initially, I'd written a normal love song. Later, I wrote Corona Kannala.' I say cheesy because we used a lot of contemporary references.
I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Messi and Ronaldo are certainly the best in the world. They are both unbelievable. I am very happy to be a contemporary of these geniuses.
FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway.
When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."
Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.
The Pakistani writers are addressing change and what's happening today in the world. There is something completely contemporary in this writing.
I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.
On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait on the wall and in the past.
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout tracks on their own.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.