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David Strathairn

"Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books."

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Asa Don Brown

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

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Asa Don Brown

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

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Asa Don Brown

"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

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Asa Don Brown

"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."

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Asa Don Brown

"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."

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Asa Don Brown

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

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"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."

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"All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women."

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Asa Don Brown

"History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong."

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"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."

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"If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow."
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"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
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"When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow."
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"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."
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"In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man."
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"So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends."
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"Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books."
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"It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days."
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"I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better."
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"You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back."
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