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The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

~Anna Wintour

Topics: America Arabia Contemporary Frankly Look Must Notion Order Power Saudi Saudi Arabia Seeker Seriously Taken Woman

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Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: About Affects Behavior Biology Certainly Complete Contemporary Continue Dating Deeply Dissertation Early Evolution Evolve Humans Lot Our Over Past Psychological Questions Quite Quite A Lot Relevant Sure Ten Thousand Thousand Years Unlikely Willpower Years

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I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.

~Anne Bishop

Topics: Any Being Contemporary Could Details End Fantasy Intimidated More Small Story Straight Sure Than Up Urban Would Write

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I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.

~Anne Meara

Topics: Acting Actor Become Been Comedy Contemporary Doing Experience First Great Great Learning Experience Just Later Learned Learning Learning Experience Like Means Older People Respect Sarah Someone Started Theatre Then Thought Young Young People

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While I appreciate horror movies, I'd love the opportunity to do something transformative, especially because people see me as contemporary. There's a lot to explore in my career that could take me back to another time. A period piece would be an incredible game of dress-up, too.

~Ari Graynor

Topics: Another Another Time Appreciate Back Because Career Contemporary Could Dress-Up Explore Game Horror Horror Movies Incredible Lot Love Me Movies Opportunity People Period Piece See Something Take Time Too Transformative While Would

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In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.

~Arne Glimcher

Topics: Against Ai Among Art Art World Artists Became Began Chinese Contemporary Cynical Early Early 1990S Emergence Establish First Group Known Movement Reaction Realism Realist Social Style Were Witnessed World 1990S

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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Achievements Between Consciousness Contemporary Crying Extinction Happens Islam Islamic Muslims Need Outstanding Race Virtue World

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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

~Arthur Erickson

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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

~Arthur Koestler

Topics: Ambition Contemporary Hundred Hundred Years Reader Readers Should Ten Ten Years Time Trade Writer Years

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We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

~Arto Lindsay

Topics: Because Classical Classical Music Close Contemporary Doing Fact Guitar Interested Lack Music Over Play Realized Really Very Way Were World

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