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Alison Weir Quotes

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: 1951

Topics

History People Writing Facts Feel

On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

John C. McGinley

Play Go Two Years Out Film

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

People Loving Deserve Need Most

Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th century and the instability and flux of our own time.

Time War World Generation Security

If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.

Change Over Pleasure Anything Paid

I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.

Michele Bachmann

King Opinion Office Ability High

God is never on the sidelines of His children's lives. He goes before them. He leads them, guides them, protects and saves them.

God Children Never Sidelines He His

I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

Yourself Year You Getting Old Old

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

Words Animal Ideas Computers Search

Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.

Somewhere CEO Would Spectrum Most

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

Dexter Fletcher

Time Childhood Man Child Me You

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

Cheo Hodari Coker

People Underestimate Complexity Books

Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.

Words Singing Easy Say True Try

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