“Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.” WritingJobsUsedChangedCoupleBusyUsed To Be Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMindLongArtI CanAbleFilmUsedValuesTermNovelSeeingChangedLike YouBecomingLong TimeTrainingExpectationsAngryPhonesCellsAcquireConcentrationDedicationYoutubeCell PhoneBecoming MoreClipImmediacy Author:Adrian Tomine
“It was fun to be in a scene again with [my wife LaTanya Richardson]. We used to do plays together all the time. We hadn't really worked together since Losing Isaiah [1995]. That was kind of early on in both of our cinematic careers. Things have changed a little bit since then.” KindLittlesPlayTogetherUsedFunBitsCareersWifeChangedSceneLittle BitLosingMy WifeCinematicThings Have Changed Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to re-rig everything creatively on the spot, and you not only have to be able to do that, but do it with great fluency to keep moving. I used to go apeshit when anything got changed in a film but you live and learn, and I have learned.” IfsAbleFilmMovingUsedChangedGainsSpotsI Have LearnedLocationSchedulesKeep MovingLive And LearnRigsFluencyYou Live And Learn Author:William Monahan
“One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasnt there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.” WorldUsedFatherGoneStudyChangedParticularMountainFindingsMy FavoriteForestsSpotsStreamsApplesCanadaSparksSwimmingGraduatesFinancingOrchardWorld Bank Author:Vandana Shiva
“There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.” KnowsHas BeensStillsWarRunningUsedPresidentDoubtChangedCallingBattleLosingArmySuicideDrivenNo DoubtTerritoryTacticsBombingNigeriaGuerrillasStrongholdsBoko HaramHaram Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
“Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.” PeopleShowsUsedCommonWatchesMillionsSuccessfulChangedTvsNeededUsed To BeAmbitiousTv ShowsLowestCablesCommon DenominatorStreamingLowest Common Denominator Author:Judd Apatow
“Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.” PeopleWorldWantStatesStoriesUseAgeAbleFormUsedCommunityMiddleChangedIndustryHabitNewsAccessNewspapersGoldenDespiteAround The WorldConsumersReportsCommentEnginesSurfGolden AgeSearch Engine Author:Arianna Huffington
“We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.” WayFeelingsWantedUsedGriefEmotionSadnessChangedMovedObsession Author:Sandra Cisneros
“There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.” YearsUsedChangedMexico Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I don't see everybody as much as I used to because as individuals everybody is busy but none of the relationships have changed.” UsedIndividualChangedBusy Author:Mic Geronimo
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsYearsHumansChildrenWarJobsLastsUsedDesirePeaceLeaderChangedBuildingSafetyShelterGood JobWorld LeaderLove Of MoneyWaging WarDesire Love Author:Jim Clifton
“The reality is, the way we've used phones and the amount that we've used phones has changed radically in the past five years. When phones were first marketed in the 1990s, it cost, for car phones, $3000 to buy a phone and the average person did not use it that much. They were very, very expensive.” WayYearsFirstsPersonsUseRealityPastUsedFiveCarChangedAmountCostAveragePhonesFive YearsExpensiveAverage Person Author:Devra Davis
“Airports - they're not my idea of fun at all. Some of the staff are lovely, but you do always get one or two that seem to forget that it's actually costing you a lot of money to be there and be insulted by their surliness. Times have obviously changed and we need to get used to being more strictly vetted, but they could be more pleasant about it. A smile wouldn't go amiss.” NeedsTwoIdeasSeemsUsedFunForgetChangedLovelyPleasantLots Of MoneyStaffAirportsInsulted Author:Alan Titchmarsh
“They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.” UsedValuesChangedUnionsRhetoric1930sMarxist Author:Noam Chomsky
“Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.” UsedChangedEnvironmentalDigitalDocuments Author:Tom Peters
“People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.” PeopleWorldHumansKindTwoImportantRealityUsedFunSexHuman BeingsChangedDramaAccountsDistanceScaryGhostUsed To BeIntimateSplitsSpectrumCoexistenceSimulationReally ScaryImportant Relationships Author:Paul Virilio
“The worst thing that can happen is when you have gone weeks and months into elaborate sequences and the storyline of the film changes and you find out they don't need it. Sometimes you don't shoot those sequences, or they have been shot and then get edited out of the sequence you've shot gets changed and needs to be redone. That can be hard. It's not heartbreaking, but you do tend to think, "Och, all that work and effort." But that's filming, you know? You put all of these modular things into the pot, and sometimes they don't all get used.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsHas BeensSometimesHardHappensFilmUsedEffortGoneWeekWorstChangedMonthsShotsPotWorst ThingsSequenceHeartbreakingEditedStoryline Author:Wade Eastwood
“Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands, you know? That's obviously changed, because in Europe they're much more interested in bands speaking their own language. Especially in France and Germany. They're starting to develop their own bands much more.” KnowsWorldKindUsedLanguageNationsAttitudeChangedBandEuropeStartingPopsFranceGermanyBritainEmpiresPop Music Author:James Dean Bradfield
“There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women have changed so much. We're so varied. And we've become more interested in the same varied experience in fiction.” UsedSexBitsFictionToo MuchChangedUsed To BeInternalsCategoriesRude Author:Janet Fitch
“I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.” IfsWayBelieveUseUsedLanguageI BelieveOpinionChangedPerspectiveUniversalInstrumentsFeministArtificialSensibility Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as well as air travel, emigration isn't the cutoff it used to be. In addition, some of our young people are being educated to levels beyond our present capacity to provide the jobs they are qualified to do. So they go abroad. Many want to come back, especially when they have children they would want to be raised in the Irish society and in the Irish educational system.” PeopleWantWellsChildrenLongJobsYoungUsedLevelsCuttingAirChangedCapacityRaisedEducationalEducatedUsed To BeBritainIrelandContinentsQualifiedEducational SystemAir TravelFerryEmigration Author:Mary Robinson