Eras Quotes - Page 18

• The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

  Milan Kundera

  Crazy, Book, Writing

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• I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Play, Long

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• When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

  Clarence Day

  Police, Legacy, England

  Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”

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• If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

  John Jay Chapman

  Party, Curiosity, Magic

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• I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

  Andy Grove

  Growing Up, Nice, Teenager

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

  John Lahr

  Drama, Angel, Glasses

  "Angels on the Verge" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Mean, People

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• The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Thieves, Economic

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

  Steve Largent

  Football, Jobs, Player

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• 9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to speak to each other manually; today one or both ends of the conversation would be carried on by a machine.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Distance, Party

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• We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Money, Moving

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• The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

  Ronald Reagan

  Moon, Historical, Railroads

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

  George Hamilton

  Kind, Relics

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

  George Hamilton

  Attitude, Teeth, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

  Nicholson Baker

  Training, Signatures, Sound

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Grew Up, Standards

  "Tom Ford: The Sequel" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 9, 2010.

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• You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

  Johnny Bench

  Mean, Player, Looks

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• Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Artist, Mirrors, Hands

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• At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

  Ron Fournier

  Wonder, Polarization, Term

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• On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

  Hale Irwin

  Winning, Player, Thinking

  "Hale Irwin, 66, has 45 years of S.F. history". Interview with Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2011.

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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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• When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

  Max Brooks

  Dark, Thinking, Knights

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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• We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

  Aloe Blacc

  Desire, Needs, Consumerism

  "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek.

  Tracie Bennett

  Running, Issues, Weight

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• It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

  Eliza Coupe

  Growing Up, Pain, My Boyfriend

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