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• I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

  Alexander Payne

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• Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

  Katherine Paterson

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• I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I’ve done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I’m probably more suited in people’s minds to playing a corseted victim.

  Rachel Hurd-Wood

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• I read everything. I’ve always got a book on the go and I’m really nerdy about it, I get through books and don’t remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

  Rebecca Hall

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• There’s no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I’ve happily joined in many discussions about ‘the contemporary novel’ where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.

  Graham Swift

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• The novel that’s contemporary in the sense of being wholly ‘of now’ is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the ‘now’ with which they begin will be defunct by the time they’re finished.

  Graham Swift

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• It’s one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  Sam Shepard

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• I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they’re by contemporary, commercial American writers.

  Lisa Scottoline

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• Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

  David Rockefeller

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• Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

  David Ricardo

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• It’s become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

  Bill Paxton

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• Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

  Bell hooks

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• Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

  George Stephen

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• One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture – some might say the supremely important aspect – is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

  George Crumb

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• Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

  George Crumb

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• The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

  Georg Simmel

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• I don’t worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

  Genevieve Bujold

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• We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

  Chuck Mangione

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• Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

  Gabriel Marcel

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• The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

  Edward Hopper

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