My mum was a product of the Eighties - she always spent more money than she could make. She'd start these businesses… — James Bowen Copy Share Image
There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the… — Leander Kahney Copy Share Image
As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate.… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
I watched 'Who' with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Yes, even old American writers are dancing like it is still the eighties in San Francisco, like the sexual revolution has been… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and… — Seth Copy Share Image
In the Eighties, the landscape was changing. No one knew if they had a future. It's not like now. There was no… — Shane Meadows Copy Share Image
I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
In the eighties, there was a huge shift in the humor of Japanese television. Up until then, the humor was garnered by… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
All Creatures Great And Small' is one of the most popular British television series ever made. When it was broadcast in the… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each… — Sjon Copy Share Image
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope… — Robert Downey Sr Copy Share Image
Part of me is stuck in my childhood in the Eighties. I actually watch 'The Neverending Story,' 'Labyrinth,' and 'Legend' over and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses,… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the… — George Michael Copy Share Image
In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Yes, I would say I had quite a rough time from 1992 to 1996. After the highs of the Eighties, work became… — Limahl Copy Share Image
Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“These were the early Clinton years but the economy was still sucking an eighties cock...” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties but gravity always wins. — Radiohead Copy Share Image