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• I’m a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  Gale Anne Hurd

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• I’ve played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

  Bob Hoskins

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• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  Jack Horner

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• I couldn’t resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of ‘A Discovery of Witches’ throughout the pages of the novel.

  Deborah Harkness

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• Christianity is a very historical religion – it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

  Lee Strobel

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• I’m not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

  Wilbur Smith

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• Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there’s something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what’s on the minds of the people.

  Patti Smith

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• Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.

  David K. Shipler

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  Tags in Historical, Reliable

• I don’t look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

  Peter Sampras

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• Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

  Dilma Rousseff

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• I love England and the historical aspect of it.

  Dennis Farina

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• After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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• I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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• It’s a very good historical book about history.

  Dan Quayle

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• It’s good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it’s very pleasing after writing something like ‘Atonement’ or ‘On Chesil Beach,’ which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  Ian McEwan

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• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  Dame Barbara Cartland

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• Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

  Pete Seeger

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• The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

  Dave Barry

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• I am not very moved by historical apologies.

  Tom Paulin

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• In ‘The King’s Speech,’ patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.

  Tom Hooper

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  Tags in Time, Historical