Different Eras Quotes - Page 2

• With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

  Jane Campion

  Stars, Sadness, Piano

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

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• I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic

  Iris Apfel

  Fun, Lying, Thinking

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• Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Mind, Different, Eras

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• Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Mean, Circles, Political

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.191

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• Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Cells, Different

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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• I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.

  Carey Mulligan

  Drama, Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

  Alexander McQueen

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  "Remembering Alexander McQueen". Interview with Karl Plewka, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1997.

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• Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

  Tyga

  Art, Real, Rap

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

  Elisa Kreisinger

  Ideas, Style, Eras

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• Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Girl, Different, Paper

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us.

  Mikey Way

  People, Giving, Different

  "Mikey Way talks of Big Day Out 2012!". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, January 2012.

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• Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

  Martha Ronk

  Mean, Garden, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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