#period

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#buff #deliberate #films #history #i

The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#ally #almost #been #complicated #german

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#favorite #fourth #i #ii #middle

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#based #belief #between #china #designed

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #arrives #during #immediate #me

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#could #feel #fertile #had #happy

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world. ↗

— Ted Turner

#gave #had #half #hands #honest

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#history #interest #musical #only #periods

Mothers cry in anguish and fathers curse in anger, while others turn away in sadness, all for the children who are lost. ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #anger

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#period #real #real work #rehearsal #work