#seemed

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#become #called #could #had #heroes

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back. ↗

— Beck

#because #changing #culture #few #good

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#every #growing #growing up #hollywood #kid

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#back #break #country #division #found

The basic equation that mystified me as a young man was looking at guys who could actually get girls. I was always amazed, because they never seemed to care. I was like, 'How do they do that?' ↗

— Andy Richter

#always #amazed #basic #because #care

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#like #me #seemed #should #something

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something. ↗

— Dave Davies

#automatic #could #had #happening #i

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#best way #close #drumming #get #god

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#ask #chance #fate #favourite #fundamental