Quotes About History

I loved history and Eastern European politics.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

My family's from Eastern Europe.

Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.

I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

You either make history or you don't.

I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.

My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.

I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where have the characters been before, where have they come from?

I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

I don't believe we can run from our history. We need to embrace it and learn from it and be a better state and a better country.

We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

History was the subject that didn't seem like work. It was enjoyable. That's why I was drawn to doing it really.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Only when we ensure that the mistakes of our past are not the vision for our future, will we truly have achieved justice.