Eras Quotes - Page 38

• I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

  John Brandon

  War, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples are used, the way the electric guitar is used. I'm thinking of things that are particular to this era. But I don't always feel particularly close to the music of my peers. I often feel that I have more in common with writers and visual artists. I try to connect to people in an emotional kind of way.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Artist, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.

  Denise Duhamel

  Mean, Phones, Netflix

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many nightclubs from this era were very loud and very dark. Plus some of the best ones were incredibly crowded. To begin with, I could seldom get back far enough to get people into frame from head to foot and when I could, people would be constantly walking in front of me all the time. Then I bought a 24-mm lens and only had to be four or five feet away.

  Derek Ridgers

  Dark, Feet, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.

  Derek Ridgers

  Book, Taken, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

  Zhang Xin

  Country, Mean, Growth

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When we started out, we didn't really think that the era of great opportunity would end one day. We were much too busy developing our companies. But in today's China you can build a city, even a mega-city like Beijing or Shanghai, within 10 or 15 years. And then you are done. So in real estate development, the Gründerzeit is over. But that is not the case in other sectors.

  Zhang Xin

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..."

  Peter Jacobson

  War, College, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will it be us or our kids or our grandkids to live through this? We don't want it to happen, we don't want to be the ones with the poisoned water, but at the same time, I think there is this curiosity, like, Am I one of the "lucky" ones who gets to be here at the end? That's the tension I'm interested in.

  Lucy Corin

  Kids, Thinking, Water

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.

  Christopher Castellani

  Writing, Interesting, Baggage

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Plot, Want

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we had Urmuz, who was a surrealist before the term even existed. During Breton's era too, there was a very active Romanian Surrealist group (Ghérasim Luca, Gellu Naum, etc.) closely related to the French. They had to quit their activities as soon as the Soviet communists took over.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Hands, Forever, Groups

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• It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together and start to grow apart and have to figure out how you're going to have an adult relationship.

  K. M. Soehnlein

  Parent, Together, Adults

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• One of my favorite eras is the '80s. I'm an '80s baby to the world, love everything about the '80s.

  Deon Cole

  Baby, World Love, My Favorite

  "Deon Cole on Conan O'Brien's instincts and being chaperoned at a Prince concert". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 1, 2016.

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• The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Stuck, Publishing, Industry

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• The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.

  Olivia Palermo

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

  Todd Haynes

  Gay, Interesting, Boundaries

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic, but there are definitely some times that we went digital and you're not going to tell the difference, I don't think. I think it just serves the storytelling because that's just the era that we live in.

  Kimberly Peirce

  School, Thinking, Differences

  Source: collider.com

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• The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted.

  Carl Gardner

  Stars, California, Alabama

  "In The Groove". "Rock and Roll", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.

  Alice McDermott

  Speaks Out, Interesting, Parent

  "Alice McDermott invokes a voice little heard in life or literature for 'Someone'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.

  Christine Jennings

  Kids, College, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?

  Christine Jennings

  Ideas, People, Priorities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.

  Lennox Lewis

  Games, Superstar

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, People, Empires

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• What I've learned about that word is context, where the world is coming from - in the era the film is set, it obviously is used derogatorily. In 'Selma,' it was the same sort of thing. Of course now, in music, it's used in many more ways, including ways that takes the sting out of it. It all depends on where and when it is used, and how you look at it. But again in 'Race,' it is intensely disrespectful.

  Stephan James

  Race, Looks, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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