Quotes About Modern

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Falling in love in our generation just isn't as popular as it used to be.

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

In my opinion, Islam is an outdated religion. It's not modern. And therefore, there's too much space for violence.

Studs are the easiest way to add some edge to your outfit.

In the old days, people would pick up the phone and complain or they'd write a letter. But now they go to Ofcom and they must be sick to death of all of this. Any minor outrage that anyone's got, they go to Ofcom. They must be inundated with minor complaints.

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion has moved through modern times and how it shaped everything, from overall aesthetic to design to how it's influenced the great artists of our time.

I try not to be overly nostalgic, and I don't use nostalgia to be kitschy.

I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.

What chaos is left in modern society is a precious commodity.

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

Het leven ís geen galerie, van boven tot onder in steriel wit geschilderd, met maar één kubistisch winterlandschapje aan de muur, of met maar één stuk excrement dat aan één draadje aan de zoldering hangt te draaien, of met maar één aquarium waarin op sterk water ocharme één beest ronddrijft dat proper in tweeën is gesneden, of wat er vandaag de dag verder nog allemaal naar voren wordt geschoven als zijnde 'de kunst van het moderne memento mori'.

Forget family, or ethnic and religious groupings: corporations have supplanted all these as the primary structure of the modern tribe.

There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.