Contemporary Quotes - Page 8

• No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

  Dyllan McGee

  Aspect, Has Beens, Contemporary Life

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• Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

  DJ Spooky

  Information, Life Is, Contemporary Life

  "Explorers. What Is Your Passion?" by DJ Spooky, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

  William Golding

  Awful, Honestly, Havens

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

  William Golding

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.

  Karina Longworth

  Men, White Man, Film History

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Heart, Creative, Opinion

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Men, Trying

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• There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

  Edward Albee

  Numbers, Admire, Playwright

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Years, People

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• Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering impressionism, so very different from the vivid, precise, magisterial (and often very funny) prose of her contemporary James Joyce.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Virginia, Signatures, Different

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• On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.

  Curtis Hanson

  Struggle, Character, Independent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Use, Permit

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple computers. In principle information technology could be used to provide direct information to the work force on the ground so that they could democratically decide what the company would do, eliminating the role of management. It could be used for that. People aren't developing technology for that purpose.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Apples, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Interesting, Culture, New Work

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Our World, Looks, Obvious

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Culture, Tradition

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

  Ang Lee

  Distance, Thinking, Pieces

  "TalkAsia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.

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• In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Lincoln Center, Play, Diversity

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• You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Writing, Historical Novels

  "Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin: Blood of Bayonne". Interview with Joanna Buffum and Dylan Runco, njmonthly.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

  Martina McBride

  School, People, President

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• Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

  Alexander McQueen

  Past, Style, Culture

  Interview with Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

  Moby

  Goal, Elements, Noise

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• If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Character, Culture

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