#past

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#author #avoid #being #course #day

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#bear #between #clear #connection #establishing

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies. ↗

— Joan Chen

#asian #doing #few #gave #i

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous. ↗

— Susan Collins

#ambiguous #been #chemical #dealing #endorsing

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date. ↗

— Cher

#coolest thing #date #ever #everyone #happened

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#begins #end #jane #jane austen #line

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. ↗

— Julia Child

#amount #baker #because #certain #cook

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#beaten #being #car #five #group

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#consider #especially #found #history #i

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#assessment #criminal #document #ever #formal