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The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Celebrity

• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Work
  • Experience
  • First

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Great
  • Know
  • Joy

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Actor

• I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Practice
  • Two
  • Maybe

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Movies

• If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Think

• In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.

  

  Aberjhani
  • World
  • Compassion

• Alcun non può saper da chi sia amato,Quando felice in su la ruota siede:Però c'ha i veri e i finti amici a lato,Che mostran tutti una medesma fede.Se poi si cangia in tristo il lieto stato,Volta la turba adulatrice il piede;E quel che di cor ama riman forte,Ed ama il suo signor dopo la morte.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• My driving force is spirituality.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Driving

• If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Family

• The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Great
  • Running
  • Thoughts

• As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.

  

  James Black

• I think I was 10 when I did my first community play, and then I started booking bigger roles in these plays, and people were telling me and my parents that I was talented. And I was like, 'Well, this is something I wanna do.'

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • People
  • Parents
  • Community

• It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.

  

  Adam West
  • Character

• I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Art
  • History
  • Training

• I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate as high as some of the high-concept, big-idea, big-swing things that get the critics really excited.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • High

• If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

  

  Confucius
  • Course
  • Associate
  • Hasty

• The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

  

  Steven Johnson
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Design