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Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
Anthony Horowitz
Life
History
Beginning
Telling
Throughout
Very
Story
Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
Anthony Marra
Love
History
Culture
Natural
Rugged
College
Beauty
Natural Beauty
One-Sided
College Student
Russia
Remarkable
Student
Had
Long-Distance
Chechnya
Studying
Since
Affair
Been
Love Affair
Ever
There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all the ingredients you need. No story will quite fulfill that three-act structure.
Anthony McCarten
History
You
Will
License
Fine
Fine Line
Give
Structure
Between
Line
Lousy
Quite
Artistic
Story
Ingredients
Really
Fulfill
Need
Filmmaker
I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.
Anthony Warlow
Love
Home
History
You
Old
Long
Think
Lasted
Extraordinary
Collect
Find
Some
About
Silver
Glass
Like
How
Years
Georgian
Antiques
The History Of
Things
Fragile
I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.
Antoine Fuqua
Great
History
People
Cinema
Rich
Community
Evolved
Give
Part
Genre
Genres
Understand
Western
Up
Who
Why
I am not as knowledgeable about the struggle for gay rights, for our history, the way some of my castmates or other gay men I know are.
Antoni Porowski
Gay
History
Struggle
Rights
Men
Other
Gay Rights
Our
Way
Some
About
Know
Knowledgeable
Am
Holdouts never go well. Just look at history. It always ends badly. It wouldn't be the best decision. I make a lot of money. I pull up to camp in Rolls-Royces.
Antonio Brown
Best
History
Money
Decision
Never
Badly
Look
Well
Make
Always
Go
Camp
Lot
Up
Just
Ends
Pull
At the onset, I decided to name my brand LVL XIII - which means Level 13. The number 13 identified within the name and concept of the brand references throughout history that every creation begins at the level of thought and idea.
Antonio Brown
History
Thought
Creation
Every
Throughout
Idea
Name
Concept
Identified
Within
References
Brand
Begins
Decided
Which
Means
Level
Number
Nagasaki is not just an international city with a long and fascinating history. It is a global inspiration for all those who seek to create a safer and more secure world.
Antonio Guterres
History
World
Long
Those
Secure
City
Seek
More
Inspiration
Nagasaki
Global
Safer
Just
Create
Who
International
Fascinating
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
Antonio Tabucchi
War
Me
History
People
World
Remember
First
Carnage
Worst
Vividly
About
Tend
First World
First World War
Forget
Human
Stories
Which
Grandfather
Human History
World War
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Antony Beevor
History
Way
Slightly
Never
Feel
Does
Repeat
Historians
Itself
Uneasy
Going
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
Antony Beevor
History
People
Past
Some
Give
Voice
Because
Been
Denied
Want
In The Past
Novelists
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.
Antony Beevor
Politics
Service
History
Law
Discipline
Economics
Important
International Relations
Relations
Further
Sector
Civil
Purely
Civil Service
Students
Almost
Almost All
Ideal
Also
Practical
Because
Go
Private
Provides
Private Sector
Skills
International
Basic
Level
Sociology
Needed
Careers
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
Antony Beevor
History
Will
Sacrifice
Understanding
Lose
Pressures
Economic
Part
Budget
Budget Cuts
Without
Impoverished
Politically
Cuts
Who
Socially
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.
Antony Beevor
Knowledge
History
Entertainment
People
Superficial
More
More And More
More People
Main
Main Source
Supposedly
Context
Source
Historical
Lacks
Now
The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.
Antony Beevor
History
Took
Individual
Emphasized
Because
Off
Influence
Reason
I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.
Antony Beevor
Love
History
Certainly
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
Antony Sher
History
You
Other
Spent
Has-Been
Shakespeare
Bear
Most
Learn
Doing
Been
His
Historical
Than
Anything
Resemblance
Thing
Basic
Career
Plays
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust.
Ari Melber
Democracy
Knowledge
History
Trust
Knows
Spying
American
Anyone
American History
Public
Public Trust
When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated with authoritarian states - or darker periods in American history.
Ari Melber
Government
History
People
Power
Enough
Enough People
Trial
States
Indefinitely
Darker
Kinds
Detention
Abuse
Periods
Without
Authoritarian
American
Holds
American History
Associated
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.
Ariel Dorfman
History
Darkness
Men
Mercy
Country
Accident
Down
Minerals
Mining
Part
Leaves
Go
Integral
Integral Part
Mountain
Chile
Story
Them
Chip
Then
Created
Who
Suffer
Away
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
Ariel Gore
History
Women
Emotions
Our
More
Acceptable
Been
Cultural
There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime.
Ariel Pink
Me
Relationship
History
People
Crime
Big
Before
Own
Interpretation
Directly
Like
Deal
Narrative
Big Deal
Came
Forgetting
Want
Anymore
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
Aristide Briand
History
Justice
Battle
Country
Field
Heroism
Only
Troops
Also
Because
Interests
Turns
Grows
Right
Conservation
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
Nature
History
Philosophic
Statements
Those
Something
Rather
More
Poetry
Since
Import
Than
Whereas
Hence
Universal
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
Armstrong Williams
War
Democracy
History
Post
Free
First
Country
Beginning
Relationships
Embodies
Post-War
Something
Free Trade
Empire
Democratic
Trade
Era
End
Create
Used
Unique
Series
Utterly
Starters
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