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The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.
Sharon Jones
Music
Me
You
Soul
Music Industry
Finally
Recognized
See
Only
Know
Contemporary
Industry
Sort
Soul Music
Answer
Hip-Hop
Accomplish
Question
Get
The Only Thing
Wanted
Award
Awards
Thing
Things
Funk
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Writing
Cancer
Big
Hidden
Phrase
Shakespeare
More
He
Idea
Contemporary
Swelling
Even
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.
Simon Schama
History
Reality
Determination
Past
Our
Alive
Seem
Takes
Instinctive
Come
Remote
Contemporary
Dead
Make
Disconnected
Curiosity
Just
Storytelling
Perverse
Connection
Away
Present
Drain
I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.
Stephen Daldry
Love
Today
Hope
Morning
Wake Up
Other
Would
Perceive
More
Directors
Never
Contemporary
Make
Catholic
Making
Am
Wake
Up
Tastes
Going
Want
Really
Film
Aware
Film Directors
Film-Making
Set
It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.
Steve Martin
Art
Me
Way
Mystery
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Galleries
Function
For many years, when people described how the Internet worked - whether they were talking about shopping, communicating, or starting a business there - they inevitably invoked a single metaphor. The Internet, said just about everybody, was a contemporary incarnation of the wild, wild West.
Steven Levy
Business
People
Shopping
Internet
Single
Everybody
Wild
Wild West
About
Contemporary
Talking
Said
How
Metaphor
Inevitably
Were
West
Years
Just
Whether
Communicating
Worked
Incarnation
Many
Starting
My grandfather was originally from the south of China before he emigrated to Malaysia pre-World War II. And I wanted to learn more about the history of the country of my ancestors. I knew I wanted a narrative set in contemporary Beijing. I was really interested in the effect of the rapid social and economic change on ordinary citizens in China.
Susan Barker
War
History
Change
Country
Before
Ancestors
Rapid
Citizens
About
More
Economic
He
Knew
Contemporary
Learn
Narrative
Malaysia
South
Effect
Beijing
The History Of
Wanted
Ordinary
China
Interested
Social
Grandfather
Really
Originally
Set
I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.
Susan Wiggs
Life
Love
People
Writing
Word
Fall
Rich
Enjoy
Books
Way
Though
Triumphs
Emotionally
Wrong
Wrong Word
Perhaps
Contemporary
Equally
Deal
Always
Tragedies
Historical
Loved
Explore
Novels
Knowledge in Sanskrit will go a long way in finding solutions to the contemporary problems like global warming, unsustainable consumption, civilisational clash, poverty, terrorism, etc.
Sushma Swaraj
Knowledge
Terrorism
Problems
Will
Long
Poverty
Way
Solutions
Clash
Finding
Consumption
Long Way
Unsustainable
Like
Global
Contemporary
Global Warming
Go
Etc
Warming
I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
Taiye Selasi
Problem
Incomplete
Think
About
Perfectly
Stereotypes
Contemporary
Read
African
The Problem With
Literature
Inaccurate
Captures
Recently
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'
Takashi Murakami
Art
Culture
People
World
Try
Country
Important
Own
Background
My Own
Combine
Term
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Felt
How
Making
Came
Up
Very
Art World
Debut
Artist
My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
Ted Allen
You
Space
Old
Year
Too
Like
Contemporary
House
Year-Old
Chicago
Refreshing
Where
Spaces
Place
Old House
Really
Fun
Things
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.
Teju Cole
Time
History
Man
World
Law
Sense
Philosophy
Obama
Cosmopolitan
He
Contemporary
Read
Surprising
Fiction
Literate
Literature
Again
Former
Interest
Barack
Barack Obama
Shown
Elegant
Professor
Widely
When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be accepted. But with the talent that the show received, I was able to personally tutor dancers to amalgamate contemporary dance moves on Bollywood tracks.
Terence Lewis
People
Dance
Thought
Dancers
TV
India
TV Show
Able
Talent
Contemporary
Tracks
Accepted
Off
Moves
Personally
Show
Tutor
Show People
Even
Bollywood
Received
Started
Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness.
Terrance Hayes
Will
Reading
See
Some
Blackness
Diverse
Poetry
Contemporary
How
Subject
Quickly
Handling
Just
African-American
Anyone
Enduring
Race
Realize
We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.
Theresa Rebeck
Theatre
Care
Playwrights
Our
Way
Relevant
Only
Take
Take Care
Contemporary
Produce
Lively
Need
Plays
Part of the problem with producing contemporary political theater in America today is that many theaters don't have flexibility or resources, be it hiring a lot of actors or staging a work that might be tough for some audience and board members.
Theresa Rebeck
Work
Today
Problem
Political
Tough
Resources
Members
Some
Part
Contemporary
Audience
Hiring
Lot
America
The Problem With
Staging
Theater
Theaters
Board
Might
Producing
Flexibility
Many
Actor
I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.
Thomas Haden Church
Me
Important
Back
Writer
Contemporary
Well
Were
Years
References
Very
Did
Producer
Series
Fox
Two
I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.
Tim Minchin
Music
Me
Youth
Writing
College
Stage
Jazz
Two-Year
Out
Songs
Stuff
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Course
Cover
Bands
Did
Endless
Just
Theater
Then
Really
Eventually
Played
Started
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
Tom Robbins
Work
Writing
Fans
Mind
Think
Contemporary
Readers
Lot
Western
Wonder
Literature
Asia
Who
Appeals
Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.
Tom Sturridge
Cinema
Contemporary
Lot
Very
Fan
European
Serious
Film
Watched
Basically
If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?
Tracy Morgan
Saying
You
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Say
Would
Had
Wit
Know
Contemporary
Describe
'If The Weather Permits' was closer to my heart because it was a woman closer to my age, with a contemporary background like mine. I felt for that character. I've seen so many women like that - smart women who are a wreck when it comes to their emotional lives.
Twinkle Khanna
Character
Woman
Heart
Age
Women
Smart
Weather
Seen
Mine
Background
Wreck
Emotional
Like
Contemporary
Because
Felt
Permits
Closer
Who
Many
Lives
The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.
Tyler Cowen
Good
Great
Artificial Intelligence
Innovation
Intelligence
World
Internet
Made
Our
Indeed
Scale
Computers
Blends
Global
Contemporary
Contemporary World
Blockbuster
iPhone
Reflects
Artificial
Communications
Many
Things
I had the honour and the privilege to launch the brand Dodo and Moa together with Amazon Fashion at the Amazon Fashion Studio. The brand is a brainchild of Zashed Fashiontech. It is a new age brand for women with a collection that is contemporary, fun and modern.
Vaani Kapoor
Fashion
Together
Age
Women
Honour
Collection
Launch
Had
Studio
New
New Age
Contemporary
Amazon
Brand
Privilege
Modern
Fun
The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
Val McDermid
Best
Character
Crime
Contemporary
Suspense
Where
Novel
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