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It’s important to have relationships with the people at the archives Picture Quote #1

Language is the archives of history Picture Quote #1

Language is the archives of history... Language is fossil poetry Picture Quote #1

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective Picture Quote #1

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don’t want to sacrifice anybody else’s privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don’t love them. I think I’ve been a really good dad; at least, I try to be Picture Quote #1

As a designer looking to the future, you don’t want to get lost in the archives Picture Quote #1

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Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It’s an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world Picture Quote #1

I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories Picture Quote #1

I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession Picture Quote #1

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I’ve learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly Picture Quote #1

While I’ve won five Junos, I’ve donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room Picture Quote #1

Wellesley’s president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a ‘president or first lady of the United States.’ Picture Quote #1

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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems ‘Native Guard.’ I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building Picture Quote #1

I don’t think that there has been a film that I’ve done that hasn’t been influenced by libraries and archives Picture Quote #1

I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious Picture Quote #1

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences Picture Quote #1

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far reaching insights into the way the world works Picture Quote #1

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think that there has been a film that I’ve done that hasn’t been influenced by libraries and archives Picture Quote #1

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today Picture Quote #1

Archives exist because there’s something that can’t necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information Picture Quote #1

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace Picture Quote #1

Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they’ve studied the tapes of the old films. We didn’t have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives Picture Quote #1

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills Picture Quote #1

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I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well Picture Quote #1

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It’s important to have relationships with the people at the archives (Archives Quotes) Language is the archives of history (Archives Quotes) Language is the archives of history... Language is fossil poetry (Archives Quotes) People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective (Archives Quotes) I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don’t want to sacrifice anybody else’s privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don’t love them. I think I’ve been a really good dad; at least, I try to be. (Archives Quotes) As a designer looking to the future, you don’t want to get lost in the archives (Archives Quotes) Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It’s an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world. (Archives Quotes) I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories. (Archives Quotes) I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession. (Archives Quotes) I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I’ve learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly. (Archives Quotes) While I’ve won five Junos, I’ve donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room. (Archives Quotes) Wellesley’s president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a ‘president or first lady of the United States.’ (Archives Quotes) On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems ‘Native Guard.’ I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building. (Archives Quotes) I don’t think that there has been a film that I’ve done that hasn’t been influenced by libraries and archives. (Archives Quotes) I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious. (Archives Quotes) I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences (Archives Quotes) If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far reaching insights into the way the world works (Archives Quotes) Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable (Archives Quotes) I don’t think that there has been a film that I’ve done that hasn’t been influenced by libraries and archives (Archives Quotes) Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today (Archives Quotes) Archives exist because there’s something that can’t necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information (Archives Quotes) There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace (Archives Quotes) Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they’ve studied the tapes of the old films. We didn’t have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives (Archives Quotes) Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills (Archives Quotes) I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well (Archives Quotes)