"I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time."

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Antony Beevor

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“Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.”
“Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.”
“Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.”
“The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.”
“You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?”
“They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.”

Source : "Venables scores own goal for ITV" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2002.
“Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.”
“People who don't like you almost never come up to you. That's a lot of years of saying things that I know a lot of people in this country hate me for. And the number of times someone has come up to me and said something negative, I could count on one hand.”

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