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I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Adapt Character Contemporary Dramas Enough Love Make More Novels Really Satisfying Serial Single Story Tend

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Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

~Andrew Lloyd Webber

Topics: Audience Been Being Come Connecting Contemporary Mostly Quite Right Sometimes Stories Where

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On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

~Andrzej Wajda

Topics: Adult Attempts Audiences Big Brought Contemporary Create Film Great Had Hand Other Polish Primary School Secondary Spectacles Students Well Were

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Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

~Andrzej Wajda

Topics: Been Cinema Contemporary Degree Last Nevertheless Only Poland Reality Theatre Years

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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

~Ang Lee

Topics: After Because Certain Contemporary Distance Doing Easier Equal Everybody Harder Period Piece Relative Think Way I Think

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That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

~Angela Davis

Topics: Alternative Being Black Color Contemporary Economies Facing Increasing Involves Numbers Other People Problem Status Think Thrown True Who Work I Think

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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Cannot Contemporary Fuzzy Make Out Set Some Space Spiritual Work

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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Art Author Come Contemporary Currents Experience Great Out Seems

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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

~Anita Diament

Topics: About Community Contemporary Jewish Jewish Community Practice Since Written

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Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: About Contemporary Even Many Now People Right Write Writers

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