Eras Quotes - Page 39

• As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly, these novels help us to develop a deeper understanding of the legacy of women who came before us and the strides made by our ancestors.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Reading, Historical Novels, Understanding

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Believe, Opportunity, Leader

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out.

  Ray Romano

  Song, Men, Hbo

  Source: collider.com

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• But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.

  Marco Rubio

  Optimistic, Challenges, Realistic

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.

  Patrick Grant

  Past, Thinking, London

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody. People that I had never met. I was like, "How? I'm home alone reading chapter 12 of a book."

  Winona Ryder

  Book, Reading, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.

  Margaret Cho

  Night, Going Out, Splits

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Writing, Impact

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…

  J. Robert Spencer

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

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• This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

  Judy Woodruff

  Jobs, Dark, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

  Alan Palomo

  Choices, Cinema, Literature

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they put into their appearance back then was so grown up and specific to that era.

  Feist

  Black And White, Grandparent, Care

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

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• I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Rap, School, Giving

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think with President Obama there's going to be a discussion, because he himself is multiracial, because we have for the first time a non-white president. There's going to be talk about what does this mean? What is it? Are we in a new era?

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Thinking, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

  Beck

  Grew Up, Grew, Cassettes

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

  Beck

  Technique, Tools, Modern

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

  David Pajo

  Atheist, Angel, Band

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Impact, Different, Records

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.

  Nell Irvin Painter

  White, Black, Hemisphere

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, Elements, Buttons

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.

  Juan Enriquez

  Thinking, Teeth, Textiles

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.

  Emmy Rossum

  Beautiful, Powerful, Simple

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.

  Emmy Rossum

  Fashion, Art, Jewelry

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Losing, Film, Corsets

  Source: www.elle.com

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• With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.

  Richard Branson

  Names, Space, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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