#story

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

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#family #great #i #readers #storytellers

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

— Nora Dunn

#history #you #your

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#black and white #cinema #just #made #silent

I don’t know what’s going on with you and Travis, but I know that he’s going to do something stupid to piss you off. It’s a tic he has. He doesn’t get close with anyone very often, and for whatever reason he’s let you in. But you have to overlook his demons. It’s the only way he’ll know.” “Know what?” I asked, raising an eyebrow at his melodramatic speech. “If you’ll climb over the wall,” he answered simply. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#love-story #beauty

Would you like to make a wager on that, Abby Abernathy?” he smiled, his eyes animated. I smiled. “I’ll take that bet. I think he’ll get one in on you. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#the-start-of-a-love-story #beauty

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#aspect #began #compelling #continues #denied

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#does #entrust #freedom #history #long