I love VISITING LANDMARK Trust properties, which TEND to be HISTORICAL follies in extraordinary places.

I RESEARCH the ROLE, and if it's a LITERARY character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I WORK off the script.

One of the GREAT things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The HISTORICAL texts and the historical evidence that you use is ALWAYS somehow giving you DIFFERENT answers because you're ASKING it different questions.

WHENEVER I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a BOOK, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And it is true; BOOKS have invited me into different countries, states of mind, social conditions and historical epochs; they have offered me a place at the most unusual gatherings.

As a U.S. History major, there is something very COOL about being in cities, and walking the streets of PHILADELPHIA or Boston or NEW YORK and seeing historical sites.

I'm a HISTORY buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical SHIFTS that this PLANET has EVER seen and we have a front row seat for it.

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in WRITING The Snow QUEEN, I suppose I would CALL them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as WELL as present day ONES.

The HOLOCAUST is as real a HISTORICAL EVENT as World War II itself and not to be challenged.

I have KNOWN Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union MOVEMENT. From a HISTORICAL and sociological standpoint, the ELECTION of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian PEOPLE.

GERMANY's HISTORICAL responsibility will not expire. We want to LIVE up to it - and you should JUDGE us on it.

I LEARNED to paint in a historical METHOD. First through watercolours and then through OIL. Then, when I went to college and to the school of ARCHITECTURE, I took up modern PAINTING.