Adam Curtis As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires – in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways. – Adam Curtis Afghanistan Quotes Africa Quotes Empires Quotes European Quotes Everyday Quotes Haunt Quotes History Quotes Legacy Quotes Lives Quotes Relationship Quotes Researching Quotes Strangest Quotes I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an ’emotional history’ that conveys what it feels like to live through history as an experience rather than a grand story. It would be about the relationship between the tiny fragments and moments of personal experience, and the continual backdrop of big events. James Goldsmith is important because he used the power of the markets to break up the cosy patrician elite that ran Britain and its industries in the 1950s and ’60s. In the process, Goldsmith helped transfer power in this country away from politics and towards the markets and the financial sector.
Charles Michel In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences – economic, commercial, partnerships. Perhaps during the referendum the impression was given that once the Brexit button was pushed everything would take care of itself easily. Well, that is not true. – Charles Michel
Paul Mooney If you have money and you have fame, but you don’t have any confidence in your blackness, then it’s all for nothing. – Paul Mooney
Greig Fraser When you have the blue screen, you’ve got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor. – Greig Fraser
John Malkovich You can’t work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. – John Malkovich
Dean Wareham People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it’s really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other’s pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family. – Dean Wareham
Peter Jones I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays. – Peter Jones
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