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I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
I would love to be an historian. I'm a bit of a history geek and love books and programmes on the subject.
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
Steve Van Zandt is a very intelligent, smart guy. He's a historian, he knows a lot about rock n' roll, a lot about music.
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.
Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].
As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.
You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
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.
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
Asa Briggs was a historian of class history, so he felt obligated to bring in his driver. That's the English class thing that is much weaker now.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
The historian Linda Colley has analysed how and why George III transformed himself from being a figure of 'perfect hatred' to the father of the country.
It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.