#story

As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made to do one thing or another, whose motivations could be speculated upon endlessly, and whose missing actions could be reconstructed and approximated based on assessments of prior and later behaviors. It was one of the hazards with working a fragmentary source base. You had little scraps, like puzzle pieces, and you could put them together as best you could. But no matter how faithful you tried to be to the historical record, there would always be that element of guesswork, of imagination, of (if we're being totally honest) fiction. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#history #writing #faith

Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to placebos. When they prescribe a treatment and it works, their natural tendency is to attribute the cure to the treatment. But there are thousands of treatments that have worked in clinical practice throughout history. Powdered stone worked. So did lizard's blood, and crocodile dung, and pig's teeth and dolphin's genitalia and frog's sperm. Patients have been given just about every ingestible - though often indigestible - substance imaginable. They have been 'purged, puked, poisoned, sweated, and shocked', and if these treatments did not kill them, they may have made them better. ↗

— Irving Kirsch

#history #treatments #imagination

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference. ↗

— Robert Coles

#story #value #imagination

...whatever you do, you’ll never kill my love. I love you! It’s only now that I realize I can’t imagine my life without you ↗

— Natalie Ansard

#love-novel #love-quote #love-story #the-greatest-love-story #imagination

You were totally unprepared for her ↗

— Richelle Mead

#uncontrollable #love

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it. ↗

— Derek Luke

#give #going #hope #i #i think

They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#around #bit #could #fed #fed up

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#been #cast #first #first time #history

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#after #canada #consequence #did #emigrate

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#given #i #often #powerful #project