Contemporary Quotes - Page 35

• I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Strong, Jazz, Modern

  Source: www.elle.com

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• How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Mean, Responsibility, Technology

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals and diners, parks, things that we will recognize and experienced ourselves but yet there's this similar kind of uneasiness through all the interactions and all the things that take place. It was unnerving reading the script. I kind of felt nauseous after reading it.

  Colin Farrell

  Reading, America, Waiting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics.

  Roxane Gay

  Growing Up, Reading, Superhero

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.

  Chris Hart

  Fun, Struggle, Character

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our lives, and I started picturing myself majoring in dance at college traveling around with a contemporary dance company, and it didn't excite me as I thought it would all those years. I was just thinking about the things that I loved most about dance, which was entertaining and telling a story, and that's when I kind of opened my eyes again to acting.

  Haley Lu Richardson

  Eye, Thinking, College

  Source: wwd.com

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• My biggest dream is to be able to be in a movie or some great TV show where I get to dance, and it's about a contemporary dancer of some kind.

  Haley Lu Richardson

  Dream, Tv Shows, Dancer

  Source: wwd.com

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• Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be filled that tells the story of a contemporary dancer who is in a company - I don't know, just that's my dream to do that.

  Haley Lu Richardson

  Dream, Dancer, Void

  Source: wwd.com

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• Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.

  PJ Harvey

  War, People, Political

  Source: www.wfuv.org

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• [Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

  Erykah Badu

  Interesting, Weaving, Tribes

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• There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Past, Player, Trying

  Source: theclassical.org

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• I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

  Delphine Arnault

  Art, Passion, Modern

  Source: wwd.com

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• It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Race, Lynching, Years

  Source: medium.com

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• I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Believe, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Talking, Europe

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Bernard Hopkins' style is the way...everything he does is for a reason - little head feints, little hand movements, little shoulder rolls and gestures are all finer points of the sweet science. Before contemporary times everyone did that kind of stuff.

  Chris Algieri

  Sweet, Hands, Style

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring a song in a specific time and place. Sometimes the new words and objects are too enjoyable and descriptive to ignore. And maybe making work that acknowledges that it won't last forever is important, too.

  John K. Samson

  Song, Ideas, Dating

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a very contemporary house with windows all around it. Wherever a sunspot is, I go to it with my yellow pad and my fountain pen and I write there.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Writing, Cat, Sunshine

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Fundamentals, Way

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Two, Evil

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think we're in store for a presidency [of Donald Trump] even more unlike any that people have been imagining. I think it's gonna be tough to predict this and to analyze it, certainly in contemporary, traditional terms.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Tough

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Limits, Boundaries, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

  Nigel Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary context for a teacher to be 'truthful' - it is more the personal conduct of a life than social institutions that I am concerned to examine.

  David E. Cooper

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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