Antony Beevor Quotes
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
Antony Beevor
Quotes to Explore
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
Maggie Hassan
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
Danica McKellar
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
Fat Joe
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
Hanneli Mustaparta
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
Carine Roitfeld
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
Garrett Hedlund
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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
Forest Whitaker
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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
Jonathan Zittrain
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Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
George Gilder
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
Chelsea Handler
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As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
Avery Brundage
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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
Antony Beevor
