Ya Historical Quotes
I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.
If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.
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[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.
If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?
One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.
People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.
What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!
I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.
The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.