#tori

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#fiction #find #historical #historical fiction #i

I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#clothes #daughter #day #dress #eldest

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#duty #first #guard #his #historian

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#historical #nation #problem #states #united

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#banks #campaign #completely #counter #factories

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. ↗

— Kenny G

#criticized #else #i #increase #know

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#copied #england #states #straight #united

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good? ↗

— Matt Stone

#goofy #inspire #make #nice #people

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. ↗

— John Wilson

#actually #figures #historical #i #important

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. ↗

— John Stossel

#away #bankrupt #close #creative #creative people