#story

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#history #modern #nations #political #political history

I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#bret #comedy #errors #fans #flat

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea. ↗

— Roger Michell

#begun #coming #cutting #cutting room #film

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#attributes #criticism #every #getting #greater

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters. ↗

— David Lean

#first #foremost #i #interested #story

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#articulate #history #meaningful #parody #provide

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#being #certainly #civilization #course #history

I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process. ↗

— Kristanna Loken

#being #body #cinema #creative #creative process

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#disarm #each #enough #find #history

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#drama #epic #epic poetry #fiction #history