73 Eighties Quotes for You to Enjoy

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. Jo Nesbo

Architecture Water Edge Changed Visit Admire Boring See Cosmopolitan Rather More New Town Until House Opera Opera House Tall Go Lot Ships Modern Eighties Much Harbour Now Downtown Oslo Museum

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me. Joe Hart

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The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain. John Grant

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My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane. John Niven

Time Family Travel Remember Impossible Relatives First Air Spending Air Travel Visit Toronto Wear Abroad Glamour Had Days She First Time Been Trying Going Decide Eighties Plane Mum Ever Early

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there. Jonathan Banks

Great Me You Films Seventies Out TV Would Would-Be More Had Written Stuff Great Stuff Most Edgy Than Eighties Believed

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had. Jorja Fox

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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else. Kate Atkinson

Time Women Writing Competition First Else Validated Magazine Point Had Highest First Thing First Time Won Short The First Thing Anyone Anyone Else Eighties Short Story Story Shown Ever Thing

The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too. Liev Schreiber

Gay Face Club Too Saw Worst London Guy Glass Another Were Pint Break Eighties Bar Fights Ever

Yes, I would say I had quite a rough time from 1992 to 1996. After the highs of the Eighties, work became slow from around 1987 to around 1997. I was running a small recording studio in Shepherd's Bush but wasn't making a great deal from it. Limahl

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Even in the early Eighties, when I was one of the most successful models in Britain, I didn't really have a voice. Time after time, when I should have spoken up, I simply walked away. Marie Helvin

Time Voice Simply Spoken Most Up Walked Models After Eighties Really Successful Should Even Away Early Britain

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums. Martin Filler

Work Inevitable Other Mediums Final Seventies Easily Carried Out Jobs Physical Architects More Prevent Winning Attaining Demands Cultural Achieved Artists Transcendent Eighties Modern-Day Capacities Many Flood Stardom Necessarily Phase Assistants

I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang of kids from the wrong side of the tracks in Sixties Oklahoma. I grew up in the Eighties in Nottinghamshire, but this tale of troubled, but essentially good, kids - or 'greasers' - was something I completely connected with. Matt Haig

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Being 'ethnically ambiguous', as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster. Meghan Markle

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The emerging notion of the Eighties was that publicity was a currency. The old view was that if you had a currency - your talent or your product - publicity might draw attention to it. The new view was that publicity in itself, highlighting you, bestowed value. Michael Wolff

What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore. Mike Flanagan

Character You Important Become Focused Structure More Only Empathetic Instead Cheer Reaction Gore Makes Audience Were Lot Than Any Human Want Human Beings Eighties Story Which Movies Them Beings Slasher Violence

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it. Mindy Kaling

Remember Parents Feeling Late Wave TV Bad TV Shows About Simpsons Were Up Articles America Loved Eighties The Simpsons Little Then Wary Shows Growing Growing Up Started Watching

In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties. Miuccia Prada

Fashion World Conservative Too Very Eighties Europe

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long. Morrissey

Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years. Nolan Bushnell

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I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood. Olga Kurylenko

Music You Sometimes Big Too Everything Once Mood Kinds Classical Know Contemporary Always Mix Years Listen Trance Just Depends Different Eighties While Really Pop Jay-Z Fun Amy Amy Winehouse

I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it. Oscar Isaac

You Song Big Whoa Every Sick Folk Some Feels Lot Very Getting Stadium Eighties Really Stand Even Groups Thing

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. Patton Oswalt

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Bush began helping Enron in the eighties. Paul Begala

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William's marriage to Kate Middleton showed that social class, which seemed so important when Prince Charles was looking for a bride in the Eighties, is no longer an issue. Penny Junor

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