#seemed

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back. ↗

— Beck

#because #changing #culture #few #good

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#always #antithesis #been #book #doing

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something. ↗

— Dave Davies

#automatic #could #had #happening #i

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#best way #close #drumming #get #god

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#every #growing #growing up #hollywood #kid

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#ask #chance #fate #favourite #fundamental

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational. ↗

— Jon Postel

#any #government #internet #issue #managed

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page. ↗

— Marla Maples

#been #could #different #every #front

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#commenting #existence #i #into #like