you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed. The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything.
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
I truly believe that when you've found the one you're searching for, you become a better version of yourself. You're better for it.
I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me. "
I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.