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

  Gale Anne Hurd

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  Tags in Fiction, Historical

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

  Bob Hoskins

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  Tags in Historical, Dictators

• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  Jack Horner

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  Tags in Dust, Historical

• 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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  Tags in Pages, Historical

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

  Lee Strobel

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  Tags in Historical, Specific

• 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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  Tags in Historical, Colonialism

• 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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  Tags in Historical, Unless

• 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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  Tags in Historical, Icon

• 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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  Tags in Opinions, Historical

• 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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  Tags in Good, Writing, Historical

• Most people’s historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

  Rush Limbaugh

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  Tags in Day, Historical

• The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

  Georg Simmel

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Historical, Formation

• Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

  Cliff Stearns

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  Tags in Recognize, Historical, Person

• If you’re playing the a historical character that’s in the public consciousness, then obviously you’ve got to make an effort to look like that person and there’s a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

  Colm Meaney

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  Tags in Character, Historical, Public

• Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that’s because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There’s been so much interest in Indian culture.

  Aarti Sequeira

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  Tags in Food, Historical, Indian

• We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia.

  Evo Morales

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  Tags in Historical, Problems, Together

• 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

• That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

  Charles Hodge

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  Tags in Fact, Historical, Office

• Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

  Edward Sapir

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  Tags in Cultural, Anthropology, Historical, Science