“I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.” WritingInterestingDealsHarderI RealizedErasCompellingBaggage Author:Christopher Castellani
“I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.” WantWritingWellsBornNovelWrittenPagesErasNarrativeCollectionsPlotInchesEssaysSonnetScreenplays Author:Julianna Baggott
“On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we had Urmuz, who was a surrealist before the term even existed. During Breton's era too, there was a very active Romanian Surrealist group (Ghérasim Luca, Gellu Naum, etc.) closely related to the French. They had to quit their activities as soon as the Soviet communists took over.” Has BeensHandsLiteratureTermForeverGroupsActivityActiveQuittingErasRelatedEtcCommunistSovietSurrealismSurrealist Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together and start to grow apart and have to figure out how you're going to have an adult relationship.” TogetherGrowsParentFiguresAdultsErasAdolescence Author:K. M. Soehnlein
“One of my favorite eras is the '80s. I'm an '80s baby to the world, love everything about the '80s.” WorldBabyMy FavoriteEras80sWorld Love Author:Deon Cole
“The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.” IndustryStuckErasPublishingPublishing Industry Author:Vantile Whitfield
“What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.” InterestingGayBoundariesErasMasculinityBreaking DownFemininityBisexualityGlamAndrogyny Author:Todd Haynes
“There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic, but there are definitely some times that we went digital and you're not going to tell the difference, I don't think. I think it just serves the storytelling because that's just the era that we live in.” ThinkingSchoolFoundDifferencesNumbersSpecialEffectsStorytellingFantasticErasDigitalOld SchoolSpecial Effects Author:Kimberly Peirce
“The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted.” KindBigsWantedStarsStuffBandPopsErasCaliforniaAlabamaStardustMona Lisa Author:Carl Gardner
“My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.” FirstsSpeakLanguageParentInterestingGenerationsCatholicRaisedDareActiveErasInteriorsBrooklynSpeaks Out Author:Alice McDermott
“These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.” PeopleIdeasSeemsKidsVisionCollegeHappeningsRadicalCommunismErasFarmersSaltPreacherAssociatesBankersAcidExperimentationAmerican Society Author:Christine Jennings
“The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?” PeopleIdeasDifferentTermDevelopmentCapitalismPrioritiesBunchErasReasonableIndividualismShockingFree MarketParallelsUnreasonableVictorianFree Market Capitalism Author:Christine Jennings
“Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.” GamesErasSuperstar Author:Lennox Lewis
“People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.” PeopleThinkingModernLateAcceptedConversionErasEmpiresPhenomenonJudaismRoman EmpireProselytizing Author:Susan Jacoby
“What I've learned about that word is context, where the world is coming from - in the era the film is set, it obviously is used derogatorily. In 'Selma,' it was the same sort of thing. Of course now, in music, it's used in many more ways, including ways that takes the sting out of it. It all depends on where and when it is used, and how you look at it. But again in 'Race,' it is intensely disrespectful.” WorldWayLooksFilmUsedCoursesRaceDependsIncludingErasI've LearnedDisrespectful Author:Stephan James
“As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly, these novels help us to develop a deeper understanding of the legacy of women who came before us and the strides made by our ancestors.” MadeHelpingReadingUnderstandingNovelOne ThingBenefitsHistoricalDeeperErasLegacyAncestorStrideDeeper UnderstandingHistorical Novels Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.” BelieveOpportunityI BelieveLeaderGreaterPlanetsFemaleHarmonyErasEnteringNew EraFemale Leaders Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out.” IfsKnowsMenAgeWantedCertainSongSidesBreakErasVinylHboNotchesConnoisseurJaggerTop Notch Author:Ray Romano
“But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.” IfsChallengesOptimisticErasRealisticOur Future Author:Marco Rubio
“I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.” ThinkingHas BeensPastRichLondonErasGreat Ones Author:Patrick Grant
“I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody. People that I had never met. I was like, "How? I'm home alone reading chapter 12 of a book."” PeopleBookWholeHomeBigsReadingCollegeMetsComplexesErasChaptersLinkedMe Alone Author:Winona Ryder
“This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.” NightStuffSeeingErasSparksEvery NightSplitsGoing OutBerlinReally WeirdWeird StuffDuran Duran Author:Margaret Cho
“Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.” WritingMatterRememberSongGoalHugeYeahImpactErasMasterpiece Author:Margaret Cho
“Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…” StoriesShowsAbleTogetherGirlBoysGrowing UpComedyGrowingInfluenceThousandMajorsHundredSilentErasComedianCharlieBrooksComedicChaplinBoy Meets Girl Author:J. Robert Spencer
“This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.” MindHumansImportantJobsLeftDifficultDarkImportant ThingsErasHuman MindTotalitarianism Author:Judy Woodruff
“We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.” ChoicesLiteratureToo MuchErasCinemaSci Fi Author:Alan Palomo
“It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they put into their appearance back then was so grown up and specific to that era.” CareYoungBlackWhiteAppearanceErasBlack And WhiteGrandparent Author:Feist
“I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.” GivingSchoolInsightRapGoldenErasOld School Author:Big K.R.I.T.
“I think with President Obama there's going to be a discussion, because he himself is multiracial, because we have for the first time a non-white president. There's going to be talk about what does this mean? What is it? Are we in a new era?” ThinkingFirstsMeanDoePresidentWhiteFirst TimeErasDiscussionPresident ObamaMultiracialNew Era Author:Michael Emerson
“With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.” ProcessModernToolsTechniqueErasGet Real Author:Beck
“As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.” BandAngelAtheistErasEtcMetalsPossessedMorbidLove DeathAutopsyDeath Metal Author:David Pajo
“When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.” DifferentSeemsRecordsImpactErasDifferent Eras Author:Jeff Tweedy
“The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.” BlackWhiteCommonShareImportanceFundamentalsTradeSlaveWesternErasCaribbeanHemisphereDichotomyBlack WhiteSlave Trade Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksWholeRight NowElementsErasInchesButtonsSignalsHousingHypotheticalMetallicFunctionalityMailboxes Author:Khoi Vinh
“We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.” ThinkingTeethErasExtrasFuelGet RealBladderTextiles Author:Juan Enriquez
“I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.” BeautifulSimplePowerfulMusic IsErasGarlandsDori Author:Emmy Rossum
“I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.” ArtFashionErasGlamourJewelryArt Deco Author:Emmy Rossum
“I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.” FilmLosingErasCorsets Author:Vanessa Paradis
“With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingDifferentWholeNamesSpaceSafeScientistErasEngineersVirginsRocketsSpace TravelNew Era Author:Richard Branson
“I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.” PeopleMenBelieveTwoYoungUsedGrowsViewsAcceptingPracticeGrowing UpFrontsBrotherDutyMirrorsLibraryErasYoung ManNeighborhoodBedroomUnclesMeekBabaDressersTwo Brothers Author:Joe Biden
“People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.” PeopleWorldGrowing UpGrowingIdealsErasThemeLinks80sConfusing Author:Sam de Jong
“We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.” ThinkingWayYearsDoeAbleThreeGamesPowerfulPartyGonePlayerWrittenMovementPeriodsExerciseRepublicanWingsDemocraticRadicalAdministrationTeaErasProgressiveEstablishmentNegotiationRight WingTea PartyThree WaysProgressive Movement Author:Ben Wikler
“I work at a record label where I have archives. These things [memorabilia] occurred and are important to somebody, and they're important to me. I find the record industry largely repellent. This music, the Teen Idles, all of that stuff, is important to me. I don't have lawyers, an agent or a manager. However I find the music industry largely repellent. I just make records because that's what I love to do. So I think that era, those pieces of media, I keep in my collection.” ThinkingImportantStuffRecordsPiecesMediaIndustryLawyerAgentsManagersLabelsErasCollectionsMusic IndustryArchivesRecord Labels Author:Ian MacKaye
“I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingTryingFirstsLongStillsI CanBookRememberSongStuffWorstLong TimeEightErasLoudObsessedChordsPsychedelicWriting PoetryHendrixCringe Author:Ladyhawke
“One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever magazine article. That is also the great power of the internet, where people share their opinions without the annoying screen of the media, and so much of the presence of my books has come from the Internet. It's a new era, a new form of war, and I embrace it.” PeopleKindPersonsBookWarHelpingFormOpinionShareMediaInternetEmbraceScreensCleverSuperiorsMagazinesErasArticlesAnnoyingGreat PowerAdvertisementsNew Era Author:Robert Greene
“I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of it becomes about hearing the stories of those eras, and creating nostalgia from those stories.” StoriesMysteryEmotionalPeriodsCreatingConnectionsHearingNostalgiaErasTime Periods Author:Elle Fanning
“It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.” YearsFirstsShowsGoneNew YorkGrewCoupleBandGrew UpYears AgoTheaterTheatreErasConcertsJamReally CoolPortCapitol Author:Nick Kroll
“Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.” MomMy MomEras Author:Cheyenne Jackson