80s Quotes - Page 14

• His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.

  Lou Lumenick

  Brother, Example, Comedy

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• I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

  Moby

  Weed, New York, Growing Up

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• I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

  Alex Chilton

  Country, Player, Years

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• The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

  Akon

  Mean, Artist, Moments

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my camera as a mirror for my subjects as well. I remember photographing a woman in her 80s for my book, Wise Women, who told me it had been a long time since anyone had really been interested in "seeing" or photographing her. When she saw the picture, she burst into tears. She saw something in the photograph, an inner beauty and soul, she felt had long ago vanished.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Wise, Photography, Book

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• There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Rocks, Rock Song

  "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

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• Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

  Bob Dylan

  Taken, People, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

  Jay McInerney

  New York, Book, Thinking

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• I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Doors, Feet, Acting

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Moments, Vulgar

  Interview with Marion Hume, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Blur

  "Head Over Heels for Manolo Blahnik" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 23, 2010.

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• When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.

  Steven Wright

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Years, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

  James Patterson

  Dog, Kids, Hands

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

  Ernest Cline

  Cute, Girl, Ukulele

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House

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• I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

  Ernest Cline

  Cereal, Vintage, Civilization

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• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Abuse, Saws, Institutions

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• You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

  Ann Wilson

  Fake People, Hair, Video

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• On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

  Simon Cowell

  Friendship, Dad, Business

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• In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't care. Sometimes they'd ask where that came from and you'd tell them, but you still had to play a bunch of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Writing, Play, People

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• I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably popular, its about creative expression, quality, emotion and artistic integrity. I love and listen to all styles of music and try to blend the influences together into my songs. Including elements of funk, soul, dub, disco, ‘80s sounds and rock

  Miguel Migs

  Song, Integrity, Inspiration

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• I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.

  Scott Baio

  Ipods, Whole, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show.

  Monica Potter

  Reality, Thinking, 80s And 90s

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• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, Feminist, Tests

  Naomi Wolf answers your questions, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

  Paul Weller

  Serious

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