quotes about Historical Fiction

“I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.”

“People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.”

“Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.”

Source : "Dominic West on The Hour, John Carter, and yes, The Wire". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. November 26, 2012.

“Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it”

“The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.”

“People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.”

Source : "'Elizabeth' brings queen's life to big screen". www.cnn.com. November 04, 1998.

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”

“I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”

Source : Invisible Man prologue (1952)

“My style is streamlined, sophisticated and simple, so I usually go for a dress. No matching involved. I am bad at matching! I like easy and when you're done, it looks like a second skin. I wear dresses every day for that reason. It's easy!”