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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school. Vera Wang

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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!' Victor Pinchuk

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I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption. Walter Kirn

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Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything. Wendell Pierce

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The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff. Will Self

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The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen. Will Self

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Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens. William Boyd

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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. William Kempe

I especially like to collect contemporary art. Yusaku Maezawa

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When dancing for mass numbers, you can throw your hands and legs anywhere, but contemporary dance is a whole different ball game. Every move has to be pointed, graceful and must look elegant. It's not easy trust me, but is a lot of fun nevertheless. Amyra Dastur

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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. P. J. O'Rourke

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With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before. Prue Leith

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Look at her in ‘Tevar.' Sonakshi has never looked more stunning. She lost oodles of weight especially to shoot the song ‘Radha Nachegi.' Look at how gracefully she has performed the song. Very few contemporary leading ladies can carry off a semi-classical number so fluently. Boney Kapoor

Contemporary anti-Semites claim they have nothing against Jews - they just hate the Jewish state. Lee Zeldin

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All my films have raised questions on issues that are contemporary and relevant to our times. Suresh Gopi

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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk

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I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when I sit down to read some poetry, I usually read more contemporary stuff. Samuel Ervin Beam

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I was fortunate enough to work with legends like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu Chatterjee, Vijay Anand and Yash Chopra, and contemporary filmmakers like Farhan Akhtar and Karan Johar. Rajesh Khattar

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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve. Salman Rushdie

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That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either. Jose Jose

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Though the contemporary shows are good, I prefer sitcoms like my father's. Shriya Pilgaonkar

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