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I'm friends with all my contemporaries.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.
I don't have the similar amount of success like my contemporaries have.
I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.
I see myself and my contemporaries being part of some good work in Bollywood.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.
Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
There are so many talented actors in my contemporaries and my seniors... I seek inspiration from each one of them.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.
All of my contemporaries in L.A. are all graduates of either Yale, Julliard, Trinity. The best of the bunch come from that.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.
I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.
I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.
I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.
Lots of my contemporaries have had to come to terms with who they are and realise all those deeply held assumptions we had when we were teenagers and in our 20s no longer apply.
We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.
I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
I'm really a product of an excellent school system and supportive parents. My high school band director gave me recordings of Louis Armstrong, Kenny Ball, and contemporaries like Nicholas Payton.
Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.
I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.
The people that really inspired me are the people I have now managed to become contemporaries with, like Four Tet and Floating Points. I learn so much about music just from hanging around with them.
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy.