'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about...
I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don't see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It's no accident th...
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of m...
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. ...
The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was written in exile in Paris and published in 1651. Like many texts of the time, The Leviathan is an allegory. It recal...
Art has to be reflective of our society.
It is good for society to have this introspection.
Society, you're a crazy breed.
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
Cinema is a reflection of its own society.
Everything in our society is so purposeful.
We need proof in our society.
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.
We live in a society where everything's packaged.
Ideas have consequences that can transform society.
