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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.
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.
In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.
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.
I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.
I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.
The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.
Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.
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.
I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.
Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border.
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.
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
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.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified.
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.
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity.
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
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.
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.
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.
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
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.
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.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.
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.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
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.'
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.
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.
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.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record.
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.
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.
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.
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son - we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan.
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
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.
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
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.
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.
I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.
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