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What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and he doesn't know what's going on right now, and he doesn't need to.

~Alexa Ray Joel

Topics: Been Contemporary Dad Decades Going He Know Legend Music Music Scene Need Now People Right Scene Understand Up

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The best relatively contemporary portrayal of a courtesan that I've ever seen was probably in 'Children of Paradise,' a film that was made during the Nazi occupation of France, made in secret actually.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Actually Best Children Contemporary Ever Film France Made Occupation Paradise Relatively Secret Seen

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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

~Alexander Mcqueen

Topics: Back Contemporary Culture Embraces Keeps Looks Now Particular Past Really Sticking Style Youth Youth Culture

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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

Topics: American Closer Commercial Contemporary Guess Hollywood Hollywood Movies Life Make Many Maybe Movies Narrative Real Real Life Stay Still Than Try Vernacular Within

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It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Colonial Colonists Contemporary Definite Easy Estates Gain Houses Notion Reliable Source

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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

~Alice Ripley

Topics: Action Calling Card Contemporary Like Lot Musicals Songs Stops Them

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I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Also Art Artist Books Concept Contemporary Films Galleries Make Museums Number Photographs Programs Same Show Some Television

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The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Behind Contemporary Difficult Forms Human Human Values Involved Lie Life Most Naturally Our Problems Question Real Search Values Way Which Working

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Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Adjective Because Book Contemporary Decide Disbelief Fun Hands Kind Mandatory Out Precisely Readers Right Should Suspension Take Writing You

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Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

~Amanda Harlech

Topics: Closed Contemporary Culture Dismissed Down Like Open Way Weather

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