If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
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