#story

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. ↗

— Allen Tate

#cannot #confederate #connected #connection #dead

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#beginning #character #comedies #did #every

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#created #europe #history #philosophy

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#hong kong #i #knew #kong #once

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#books #computer #computers #embroidery #history

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it. ↗

— Christian Slater

#disregard #english #factual #history #hollywood

The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#been #child #christine #clever #enough

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#experience #got #just #killer #story

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes. ↗

— Kim Smith

#i #i love #i think #listen #love

History is an endless repetition of the element of surprise. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#history #humor #funny