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The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. Jonathan Coe
Me You Think Books Guy Writer He Feel Most Felt Does Said Affinity Century Who Novels Henry
'Rent' is about a community celebrating life in the face of death and AIDS at the turn of the century. Jonathan Larson
Life Death Face Community AIDS About Rent Celebrating Turn Century
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. Jonathan Sacks
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Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. Jonathan Sacks
Religion Imminent Since Demise Western Intellectuals Predicted Century Many
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything. Joseph J. Ellis
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People need to heed the message of Chris Christie and get the job done. We don't want the last century, America's century, to be a historical accident. Joseph M. Kyrillos
People Job Accident Message Historical America Get Done Want Heed Century Chris Last Last Century Need
Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate. Joshua Cohen
Animal Words Language Relate Way Kingdom Entire Classify Could Computers Idea Ideas Without Mathematical Essentially Century Really Used Engine Derive Search Search Engine Now Right Things
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage. Joss Whedon
You Marriage People Late TV Through Never Written Takes Like Does Go Just After Place Century Novel Film Lives Thing
The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series. Judith Tarr
Time Great Master Seventies Carter Writer Adult Reader Were His American Wonders Interesting Century Fantasy Tolkien Series Twentieth Twentieth Century Early British
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. Julian Fellowes
Every Think Some Something Except Merits Period Century
Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. Jurgen Habermas
Me Three City More Than Decades Manhattan Century Capital Fascinated
James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown, the one who lies a-mouldering in his grave. Justin Cartwright
Life Good Bird Real Life Good Lord Lies John John Brown Brown Lord Real His James Century Who Based Grave Set
The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of the books printed in England since the first quarter of the 17th century, it houses priceless printed texts, manuscripts, and collections. Justin Cartwright
Great Library World First Holding Books Libraries Collections Priceless Since Most Well Houses Printed Quarter Texts Century Next England Manuscripts
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
History Book Black Black History More Inventors Became Lot Overview Did Process Century Aware
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage. Karen DeCrow
Marriage Out Come Institution Most Feminists American Did Against Century
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending. Kate Christensen
Life Fashion Food Birthday Me Happy Ending Approaching My Life Long Half Big Enough About Write Along Like Felt Narrative Move Maybe Story Happy Ending Century Fulcrum Use Milestone Lived
Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices. Kate Williams
Buy Our High Throughout Prices Cheaply Bought Countries Empire Goods Subject Century Compelled Britain
In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide. Katherine Dunn
Legal Women Competition First Half Later States Vaudeville Developed Boxers Female Waged Were Won Nationwide Century Wars Serious Professionally United United States Right Compete Marginalized
God love the iPhone. Best time waster of the century. Katherine Moennig
Love God Time Best Best Time iPhone God Love Century
My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken. Kehinde Wiley
Truth You Photography First Looking Style Sense Painting Diminished Photo Photoshop Features No Sense Through Taken Look Goes Where Process Century Certain Moment Elements
Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it. Keir Starmer
Work Government Democracy Privacy Balance Worth Achieve Will Fighting Strikes Security Between Fit Surveillance Prize Labour Legislation Which Century Right Right Balance
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe. Kelly Miller
State Prominent Frederick Remained Most Germanic Prussia After Century Europe Reign
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. Ken Auletta
Farm Valley System Silicon Silicon Valley League Ivy Ivy League American American Century Century Breeding Ground Stanford Elites
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. Ken Burns
Music Physics Important Jazz Say He Simply Most Armstrong Important Person Louis Louis Armstrong Person American Did Quite The Most Important Einstein Century American Music
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. Ken Burns
Jazz Very Accurate America Curiously Century
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. Ken Follett
Thriller Most Genre Literary Century Popular
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