Mash Up Quotes

• Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Book, Creativity, America

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.

  Frank Fairfield

  Real, Race, Civilization

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I was starting to think about this stuff. I certainly wasn't the first person to do it but now... comics mash-ups, all kinds of mash-ups are everywhere.

  Robert Sikoryak

  Thinking, People, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.

  Zachary Lazar

  Real, Writing, Details

  Source: therumpus.net

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• So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a mash up of so many different genres and things that kind of, sort of are just part of youth culture right now. Music and action and video games, and it's kind of amazing to see it all piled into one film.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Fun, Games, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

  Steve Antin

  School, Band, Green

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

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• Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Literature History, Vampire

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• I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres.

  Colette Freedman

  Cowboy, Thinking, Pirate

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

  Amy Waldman

  Taste, Kind, Austen

  "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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• The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Murder Mysteries, Meditation, Female

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• People might think you can turn creativity on and off,
  but it's not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's gonna happen, but when it does ... it's like magic.
  It's just that simple and it's just that hard.

  Gwen Stefani

  Creativity, Simple, Thinking

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• Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

  Wyclef Jean

  Growing Up, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Ben Clymer, www.askmen.com.

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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  Gail Collins

  Song, Writing, Simple

  "Will Journalism Go the Way of Whaling?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 27, 2013.

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