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Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way.

Rod Longuestte
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Martha Graham
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varese
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I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.

Snoop Dogg
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To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.1010 One has only to spend a term trying to teach college literature to realize that the quickest way to kill an author's vitality for potential readers is to present that author ahead of his time as "great" or "classic." Because then the author becomes for the students like medicine or vegetables, something the authorities have declared "good for them" that they "ought to like," at which point the students' nictitating membranes come down, and everyone just goes through the requisite motions of criticism and paper-writing without feeling one real or relevant thing. It's like removing all oxygen from the room before trying to start a fire.

David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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