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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
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Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published
I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.
I do like to always hear the male perspective because they have a very different view of what's hot to you.
Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.
For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.
We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a line as something more colorful than it was.
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
The Ambedkar park represents modern Lucknow. It might not have the stature of a historical monument like the Taj Mahal, but it has an architecture which doesn't fail to impress.
I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.
It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they've made on American life.
One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical.
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
It seems everyone who knows about Celtic knows they are historical, and if you play here, expect diehard fans.
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.
The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.
I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.
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.
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
