Contemporary Quotes - Page 34

• Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

  Paul Lansky

  Practice, Division, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Facts, Layers

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.

  Charles R. Morris

  Struggle, Different, Prejudice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

  David Edelstein

  Art, Years, Renaissance

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Sam's light-cycle, the car, and the jets are new of course, and other stuff. The new ones are sleeker and so contemporary, that if you could put them in a car design show they would hold up.

  Daniel Simon

  Light, Car, Design

  "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.

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• I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

  Colin Meloy

  Stuff, Novel, Victorian

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are.

  Danielle Dutton

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

  Tariq Ali

  Television, Ignored, Ancient

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.

  Christian Wiman

  Country, Thinking, Missing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

  DJ Spooky

  Self, Land, Names

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Pain, Past

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Way, Our Society

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.

  Catherine Wilson

  Issues, Justice, Research

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

  Frederick Busch

  Kids, Surfing, Consideration

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

  Peter Clewes

  Important, Contemporary Society, Replicate

  "Architect Peter Clewes on the Château Laurier expansion". Interview with Shannon Proudfoot, www.macleans.ca. September 21, 2016.

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• I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.

  Martha Ronk

  Thinking, Training, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.

  Michael Caton-Jones

  Thinking, Zombie, London

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.

  Elliott Sober

  Thinking, Ancestry, Common

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.

  Elliott Sober

  Reality, America, Example

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

  Jay Michaelson

  America, Promise, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Moments, Spokes, Site

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Two, Hebrew

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

  Adam Hochschild

  Sports, Football, War

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously try to write something that is timeless?"

  Sjon

  Writing, Issues, Trying

  Source: wwd.com

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• Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

  Paul Beatty

  Buzz, Mainstream, Apathetic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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