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Bake Off' has been a renaissance for me. I turn up, taste something and get paid rather well. What could be nicer?
There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.
The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.
There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.
The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed.
When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.
Why is Kerala distinct from many other states? It is simply because of the glorious movements of reforms that brought renaissance to the state.
We are a family of professionals, especially doctors. Thanks to my father, I got exposed to a whole lot of things. I call him a Renaissance man.
Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.
I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to a European concept.
Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance art and the Eurovision Song Contest.
I'm more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a sense that I know how to create apps.
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950.
I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
I love making miniatures, painting, writing, music and dance. These are the things I'm naturally good at. I'd like to think of myself as a renaissance woman.
There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age.
Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.
I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.
A Renaissance pope, they were not overly concerned with their religion - rather more concerned with politics and power. At that time, they still ruled the world.
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".