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It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose.
I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.
What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.
... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.