#20th century

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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.


Daniel J. Boorstin


#advertising #century #dwarfs #force #image

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.


Clement Attlee


#19th century #20th century #another #been #century

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.


Stephen Bayley


#britain #century #challenge #contemporary #effort

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.


Alejo Carpentier


#about #accepted #already #being #century

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!


Roger Corman


#art #art form #artform #business #century

We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.


Anne Dudley


#20th century #admiration #back #both #century

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.


Paul Goldberger


#angeles #atlanta #big #century #cities

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.


Sinclair Lewis


#barbarian #century #class #middle #middle class

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.


Harry Shearer


#alone #art #capitol #century #come

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.


Dwight Yoakam


#abandonment #became #century #early #film