"History was a hobby for about, oh, 20……" — Alison Weir
"History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print."
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9 Quotes by Alison Weir
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I prefer to be left alone with my books.
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You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none
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If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to…
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I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might
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I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
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In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of…
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At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which…
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Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel…
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More History Quotes
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one of 10,030 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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