“It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.”
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“Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.”
“Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.”
“The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.”
“We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.”
“But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.”
“Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.”
“The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.”
“Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.”
“I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.”
“Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.”
“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.”
“I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.”
“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.”
“The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.”
“In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.”
“Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.”
“The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
“More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.”
“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
“Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.”