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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

~Francesca Annis

Topics: Any Away Chinese Coast Contemporary Island Kind Off Spent Technology Two Two Weeks Weeks

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We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.

~Francis Maude

Topics: Because Britain Contemporary Home Just Like Natural Often People Should Sound Today Too Voters Who Younger

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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: After Belief Common Common Sense Contemporary Culture Demands Dispense Fluffy Illusion Might Our Pretending Requires Sense Systematic Thoroughly Well While You

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I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Along Contemporary Doing Knocks Off Really Socks Something Songs Unless

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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

~Gabriel Marcel

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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.

~Gaby Hoffmann

Topics: Artist Cindy Contemporary Dinner Dinner Parties Each Forever Her Kids Known Mother Often Other Parties Photographer Same Stepmother Were

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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Am Because Contemporary Culture Fiction Hardest Me Popular Popular Culture Really Tv Watch I Am

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I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.

~Gavin O'Connor

Topics: Character Contemporary Context Emphasis Green Heart Same Same Time Speak Story Themes Time Want While

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I went to school at Juilliard, and most of our training there is the classics, and as much as I thrive in contemporary, weird, experimental work, I really am excited about finding a pioneer woman or something from a different era that I could really sink my teeth into.

~Gayle Rankin

Topics: About Am Classics Contemporary Could Different Era Excited Experimental Finding Juilliard Most Much Our Pioneer Really School Sink Something Teeth Thrive Training Weird Woman Work

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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

Topics: Alike Beings Contemporary Human Human Beings Hundred Hundred Years Period Three Whether Worry Years Years Ago

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