Contemporaries Quotes

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. David Bowie
Time Loyalty Me Integrity People Matter Believe Changing Perceive More Contemporaries Stylistic Real Continuity Subject Subject Matter Than Artifice Any Artist Why
I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries. Alan Zweibel
Written Contemporaries Most Idols Been Very Lucky
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. Alex Cox
Law Chap Minister Studies Prime Prime Minister Contemporaries His Worked Much Who Now Harder
I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison. Arjun Kapoor
Sense Action Enjoy Films Broad Someone Structure More Contemporaries Looks Because Doing Lot Hit Maybe Believable Comparison Violence
Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have. Cathleen Schine
Approaching Alice Gazed Way Something Only Never Studied Written Over Contemporaries She Revered Cherished Years Handled Any Stories Lovingly Breathed Turned Awe Her
Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality. Gary Vaynerchuk
Work Myself World Too Market Marketers Visionary Out Like Contemporaries Most Practical Operating Practicality Understand Always How Go Lot Trying Going Being Where Heavy Far Who Here
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it. Gore Vidal
You Will Own Side Say Having Bleak Like Contemporaries Well Left Anymore Cannot Which Younger Realize Means Your
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. Gustav Mahler
Way Guided Oneself Never Contemporaries Opinion Continue
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun. H. W. Brands
Experiment Recognized Only Had Contemporaries Well Self-Government Were Begun Anything Themselves Full Who Founders
With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters. Heather Graham Pozzessere
Day You Every Day People Half Research Every Meet Out Characters Easy Concentrate Contemporaries Front Story Them Fun Wholly Right
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. Howard Hodgkin
Work Easier Tend Pictures Contemporaries Look Dead Very Get Artists Much Paintings Near
I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things. Jamie Bell
Ways Contemporaries Look Different Stages Choosing Different Stages Different Ways Routes Things Levels
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography. Janet Malcolm
Life Death Made Our Horror Triviality Mere Journals Contemporaries Inescapable Leave Impressions Die Essential Behind Buried Pity Us Reason Letters Biography Kernel
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil. Joan Collins
Time Good Me Age Discipline Devil Every Every Time Astonishment About Something Struck Beat Had Written Contemporaries Look Am Article Any Done Being Being Done Certain Certain Age Fortune Certainty Tone
At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily. Kailash Satyarthi
Time Daily Age Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Thousands About Factories Lifetime Drudgery Contemporaries Hours Most Schooling Children Fields Working Full Full-Time Start
The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today. Kangana Ranaut
Today Other Superstars Contemporaries Overnight Were Same Who Even Actress Started
I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating. Kathy Griffin
Me Think Peers Part Contemporaries Does Than Different Frustrating Little Held Standard Honest
A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. Kenneth More
Me Made Year See Week Like Contemporaries Am Years Years Ago Then Film Now Last Last Year
It's funny - until 'Catfish,' none of my films were angled at young people except for the fact that they were angled at me and my contemporaries. And that's who I'm constantly making things for. I'm not imagining a younger audience I'm trying to impart wisdom to; I don't want to seem pretentious enough to think I can impart wisdom. Max Joseph
Funny Wisdom Me People Pretentious Young Think Films Enough Constantly Impart Seem Fact Except Contemporaries Until Catfish None Audience Making Were Trying Want Young People Younger Who Things Imagining
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy. Michael Portillo
Me Try Reading Before Teens Drawn Something Could Absorb Perhaps Contemporaries Were His Epic Might Fantasy Works Tolkien
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own. Pat Conroy
Great Me Fear Made Own Draw Some My Own Attacked Writer Concentrate Contemporaries Forced Conclusions Were Trying Being
I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy. Pete Doherty
Envy Think Contemporaries Two Amy Amy Winehouse
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine. Philip Johnson
Art Good Wish Mine Some Threw Thrown He Knew Catch Contemporaries Know Greatest Does How Line Artist Done Just Painted Away
When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge. Raymond Floyd
Best You Edge Contemporaries Know Terrific Your
As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either. Robert Barany
Great Research Neither Solution Find Able Small Mystery Contemporaries None Scientists Were Wonder Either Two
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. Robert Morgan
Best Think Several Poetry Written Days Contemporaries Most Read North Southerners American Being Among Enjoyment
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