I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.
A contemporary politician has to be cognizant of things that are going on.
One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.
I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has Happened To People In Other Centuries Or In The Context Of Religious Experience. . . !!!
The poet is always our contemporary.
I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.
There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about figures like Borges, Akhmatova, Neruda, etc. I felt I needed a bigger lens to see poetry through. It really helps to see poetry as a world language, and not just something American.
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.