80s Quotes - Page 16

• Even when I did Ryan Gosling's movie (Lost River), we had a very '80s kind of vibe and I would say for two or three months after that, I was dressing in a very sort of '80s way.

  Christina Hendricks

  Two, Rivers, Three

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, Effort, Nerd

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I think I heard it [ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ] earlier. This was being played on a station in San Francisco called Live 105, which was a new wave station. It was one of the first stations to change its format in the early '80s. There was this wave of really strange music coming from Europe like Kraftwork and Freur.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Europe, San Francisco

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male.

  Nan Goldin

  Girl, Thinking, Years

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Tourists, Made, Quarters

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Regulation, Today, Kind

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Japan, Culture

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Remember, Born, Music Is

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

  Karin Slaughter

  Reading, Fiction, Crime

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

  Hugh Hefner

  80s And 90s, Conservative, Problem

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Remember

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The innovations are changing now, drastically. I remember coming to Toronto from Vancouver, and on any given night in the '70s, '80s and early '90s, everything was closed at ten o'clock. There was no drinking on Sundays. Unless you stayed at a hotel, then you could get a drink.

  Jim Treliving

  Drinking, Sunday, Night

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

  Regina Spektor

  Dark, College, Mtv

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

  Regina Spektor

  Obsession

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train."

  Wayne Gretzky

  Guy, Hull, Used

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• It still feels like Hip Hop is in the early '80s on Broadway.

  Rafael Casal

  Hip Hop, Broadway, Hips

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says," Yeah, we've got the Sinatra Doctrine now."

  Robert Davi

  Song, People, Cynical

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him. This was long after he had become one of the great masters, a writer everyone looks up to and reveres. As artists, I don't think we ever see ourselves as done. We always think we're at the beginning . . .

  Theodora Goss

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

  Arik Roper

  Growing Up, Healthy, Eras

  Source: dailydead.com

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• To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.

  Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

  Technology, Ideas, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  College, People, Hollywood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Waiting, Rolling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. I do like these ridiculous monster movies. They're scary, but they're absurd. I had a lot of fun in my 20's, watching a lot of these movies late at night.

  Ken Marino

  Fun, Night, People

  Source: collider.com

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• That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

  Terry Gross

  Creative, Eras, Late

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Alzheimer's, People

  "Reagan blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 15, 2003.

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