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• I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

  Ed Sheeran

  Thinking, People, Good Things

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

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• It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

  Rob Sheffield

  Cheer, Sorry, Night

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• Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.

  Emma Stone

  Drama, First Love, Play

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• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Real, Space, Baptism

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. September 5, 2000.

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• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  "J. Michael Straczynski Answers Your Questions". entertainment.slashdot.org. April 15, 2013.

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• Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Opportunity, Thinking, Dna

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• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Optimistic, The End Of The Day, Cockroaches

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• But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Way, Limits

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• Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

  Taylor Swift

  Ipods, Fans, Looks

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• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  Taylor Swift

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

  Amy Tan

  Clear, Havens, Steers

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• Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

  Serj Tankian

  Unique, Expression, Inspire

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

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• 'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.

  Serj Tankian

  Fun, Journey, Rocks

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• I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Actors, Samurai

  Rolling Stone, 2003.

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• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mixing, Watches, Stories

  Interview with Michaela Latham, www.bbc.co.uk. October 06, 2003.

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• 'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

  Anna Torv

  Reality, Profound, Fringe

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• But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

  Joss Whedon

  Drama, Approach, Know How

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• Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Writing, Tvs

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

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• My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Romantic, Cowboy

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• Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

  Carlos Fuentes

  "The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy" edited by Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988.

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• Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

  Marian Keyes

  Our Generation, Voice, Comforting

  "Bookreporter.com" Interview, www.bookreporter.com. May 7, 2004.

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• Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

  Billy Corgan

  Great Music, Conception

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• All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Tasks, Fiction

  "Where do you get your ideas?". Essay by Neil Gaiman, Personal website, www.neilgaiman.com.

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