quotes about Archives
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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
-- Antony Beevor -
What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration. ... That's led to this discussion that's completely raw, completely unfiltered.
-- Christopher Poole -
if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it
-- Cory Doctorow -
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When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because I'd heard about how incredible they were, but I never had the opportunity to visit them.
-- Frida GianniniSource : Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.
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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.
-- Gene Kelly -
Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related content. Why? Many of our readers are coming to the obvious conclusion that tape, despite the negative marketing, is still an optimal way to protect and archive their information...
-- George Arthur Crump -
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement
-- Jacques Derrida -
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We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.
-- Jean-Andre Deluc -
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
-- Jill Lepore -
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
-- Jonathan Dimbleby -
I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.
-- Ken Burns -
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Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance).
-- Michel-Rolph TrouillotSource : Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.26, Beacon Press
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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.
-- Noam Chomsky -
A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.
-- Raisa Gorbacheva -
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Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
-- Richard Dawkins -
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.
-- Sara Sheridan -
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.
-- Susan Howe -
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
-- Tom RobbinsSource : Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.76, Bantam
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There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.
-- Vladimir Semichastny -
Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.
-- Eric Drooker -
Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.
-- Guy Maddin -
So it was doing all this research or going to the archives or doing all these interviews or traveling, and then trying as much as I can to delete all of that research in a later draft so that all the reader cares about is the characters.
-- Molly Antopol -
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My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time of my life. It's not very informational. You're not going to get comprehensive knowledge about the Han dynasty of China or about India's Emergency. But you might learn how one person felt about the Los Angeles Olympics.
-- Sarnath Banerjee -
It’s important to have relationships with the people at the archives.
-- Shola Lynch -
If you're going to download an MP3, as a recording, it's sort of like an archive of something that has happened - that has a beginning and an end and can be released. The infiniteness escaped.
-- Tristan Perich -
I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.
-- Vanessa Kirby -
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I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.
-- Vanessa Kirby -
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?
-- Michael Atherton -
Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.
-- Rob BrownSource : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.
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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.
-- Susan Howe -
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We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.
-- Lev Manovich