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Simon Schama Quotes

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: February 13, 1945

Topics

History Find Write Hard Jewish Very

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

Confidence Game Think You Lot Any

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

Movies Make Repression About Lot

Not long ago, I got to meet some troopers whose lives had been saved. They came with their wives, their children, their parents. It was a very moving occasion.

Stephanie Kwolek

Children Parents Moving Long Meet

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Life Dog Man Human Difference Own

I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.

Me Trouble Gets

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Happiness Satisfaction Degree High

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Down Principles Way Question Own

You can't disbar unethical journalists.

Deep Media Journalism Nobody More

'100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff.

Jonathan Hickman

Early Pretty Favorite Bullets Stuff

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Time Men Values Cannot Like Actions

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.

Christian Marclay

Music Remember Participation Audience

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Character Drama Play Overcome Always

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