“The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.” Quote by Gavriel David Rosenfeld
“Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.” PeopleIfsWorldWarFactsSchoolWonderPossibilityInvolvedHigh SchoolDamnWar Of The WorldsWhat IfWowWorld War IiImaginaryWorld War I Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld
“If you're a website and you want to get attention, you can Hiterlize anything.” IfsWantAttentionWebsite Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld
“What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.” MatterLawStudyRecordsPlansConsequenceHistoricalSecureKicksI Have LearnedUnintended Consequences Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld
“I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces that are darker and dingier and more dangerous, more lonely. What comes out of there, to me, is the life force. I'm excited when the center reaches over to those places and pulls inspiration from them, and translates it for a lot of people.” PeopleInspirationForceSpaceDangerousLonelyExcitedTranslateFringePeriphery Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.” AbleYoungShakesNever QuitGrotesqueCrevice Author:Carrie Brownstein
“On stage, there are hundreds of people watching you. It's so much energy directed at you. I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store and no one is paying attention to me, I can pick up other people's moods and it's really intense.” PeopleIfsI CanEnergyAttentionStagePicksStoresMoodIntensePay AttentionGroceriesGrocery Stores Author:Rooney Mara
“I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.” PeopleKnowsPlayKnow HowStageFrontsGuitar Author:Rooney Mara
“The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.” WorldInspirationNaturalAnimalViolenceDecayNatural WorldAnimal World Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.” PeopleNeedsHumansKindLongHomeNiceHotelAlone TimeMovie SetsUnwind Author:Rooney Mara