A Quote by Nora Ephron

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

Nora Ephron

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Abstract Abstract Expressionism Became Been Dinner Dinner Parties Expressionism Fifties Food Had Parties Sixties

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Nora Ephron
American - Author
May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012

When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done. I did not want to belong to any one group or the other, and I'm not one or the other.

Georg Baselitz

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

Edmund White

I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.

Art Malik

Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

Albert Hammond, Jr.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

John Major

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

Ann Druyan

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

Terry Pratchett

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.

Duane Michals

In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.

Wayne Grady

I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.

Geoffrey Rush

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

Joni Mitchell

I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

A. A. Gill

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Aaron Huey

One thing about my dinner parties - they're never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: 'I just bought food. Dinner's at 8. Text me if you're coming.'