- Nov 07, 2020
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- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not very moved by historical apologies.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr.
- Grudges
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- Nov 07, 2020
In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.
- Differing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.
- Mergers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
- Quite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.
- Differential
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
- Societies
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- Nov 07, 2020
All societies are historical.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
- Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
- Middle Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing historical fiction.
- Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
- Haitian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found that readers of historical romances really like series because they get to revisit characters and find out what happens with them. I've done several series.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to ensnare it, to control it and strangle it, by re-inscribing it within institutions which are typical of a state apparatus.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
- Black History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
- Finally
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- Nov 07, 2020
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love historical fiction.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
- Kingdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020