Mods Quotes

• Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

  Martin Freeman

  Style, Sensibility

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

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• It's like the mod thing is happening again.

  Pete Townshend

  Happenings, Happening Again

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• You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

  Martin Freeman

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• I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

  Paul Weller

  Stills

  FaceBook post by Paul Weller from May 07, 2017

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• Nowadays people always say, 'How come he's doing such young shows?' But they never mention 'The Mod Squad'. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

  Aaron Spelling

  Girl, Squad, White

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• I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

  Martin Freeman

  Style, Looks, Jazz

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• You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

  Noel Gallagher

  Sides, Rockers

  "'U2 should shut up about Africa', says Noel Gallagher". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 8, 2007.

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• Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

  Pete Townshend

  Gay, Men, Rivers

  Pete Townshend (2012). “Pete Townshend: Who I Am”, HarperCollins UK

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• I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

  Stephen Moyer

  Kids, Italian, Sweaters

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• The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

  Jon Landau

  Self, Band, England

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• In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.

  Paul Weller

  Ties, Looks, Suits

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

  Liberace

  Men, Clothes, Becoming

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• I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

  Cate Blanchett

  Beach, Phases, Bunnies

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• I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Clothes, Accents, Haircuts

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.

  Sharon Stone

  Makeup, Color, Rose

  "Sharon Stone's Beauty Secrets". Interview with Alexandra Parnass, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 29, 2008.

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• David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Weekend, Looks, Film

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• As far as the fashion of mod 60's goes...I've always loved it. I bought a mod dress while still in college for an audition I had for Marsha Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie. It may have been a little too mod for the American 60's, but I think it worked just fine. I ended up wearing it a lot and it became one of my favorite pieces.

  Erica Schroeder

  Fashion, College, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.

  George Saunders

  Running, Reading, Writing

  The Missouri Review Interview, www.missourireview.com. June 1, 2001.

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• I like being what the girls call MOD-"my other Dad." What I've learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as long as you love them and never forget that love, then you have the key. I think it's all about just being there and loving them because kids feel that every single day.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Girl, Daughter, Dad

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• Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.

  Michael Chabon

  Powerful, Lying, Flower

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• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  Yishan Wong

  Team, Thinking, Discovery

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