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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

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Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s. ↗

— 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 Rockefeller

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As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

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We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. ↗

— David Elliott

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You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time. ↗

— Brian De Palma

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There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world. ↗

— Iris Johansen

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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. ↗

— William Kempe

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