#history

Live out of your imagination, not your history. ↗

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. ↗

#character #circumstances #encounter #history #record

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#ask #continue #distance #explore #far

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#chicago #culture #extreme #got #great

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#disagree #events #feel #guess #history

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#any #feel #history #i #just

As an actor, you have to have your history. ↗

— Nora Dunn

#history #you #your

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ↗