Historical Quotes - Page 31

• I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.

  Michael Scott

  Book, Character, Fans

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• I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

  Julie Klassen

  Character, Giving, Details

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• While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while the book was fiction, the situations were based on historical realities - some of which were pretty hard to believe.

  Julie Klassen

  Believe, Book, Reality

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• Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Past, America, Slavery

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• My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I'm tired of being the educator or nurse.

  Marilyn Dumont

  Tired, Men, Issues

  Interview with Margery Fee, canlit.ca. September 1, 2014.

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• I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

  Luc Sante

  Trying, Social, Term

  "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". Art South Africa Interview, artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

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• There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Powerful, Historical Novels, Fiction

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Class, Hierarchy

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark that historical moment which heralds the inauguration of a new era in our civilization.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Mean, Men, Civilization

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• I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.

  James Cameron

  Guy, Trying, Together

  "Cameron: Jesus tomb film is a "detective story". Today Interview, www.today.com. February 27, 2007.

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• A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.

  Gotz Aly

  Writing, Self, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Cutting, Our World

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• The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, West, Movement

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.171, Vintage

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• The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit.

  Isaac Asimov

  Mistake, Writing, Order

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Book, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works”

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• My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Kings, Prayer, Son

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Thinking, Lazy

  "We heart YA" blog Interview, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.

  Tom Robbins

  Collective Unconscious, Fiction, Facts

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• [In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

  Evo Morales

  Sea, Together Again, Overcoming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Atheist, Perspective, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Blue, Views, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Atheist, Culture, Identification

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Religious, Strong, Europe

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• I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before I identified as a feminist myself, I thought of feminism as more of a historical term describing the women's movement in the '70s but didn't know much about what they had done and didn't think it applied to my life at all.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mom, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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