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Quotes About Factual

So unstable are the most plausible theories in the light of objective, factual knowledge
~ Rudolf Virchow
As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.
~ Miriam Defensor-Santiago
I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.
~ Jonah Hill
I came through the ranks of the BBC documentary department. I was lucky working during this drama doc era, where they did reconstructions, basically like cheap drama made by the factual department.
~ Gareth Edwards
Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
~ Lee Gutkind
I'm following a real event and real people.
~ John Landis
In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're the Russian media, whether you're Breitbart, is that you manufacture lots of stuff that isn't true. The second step is that you claim that everyone is like this.
~ Timothy D. Snyder
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details have to be, have, you know, to go through a long list of them and tick them. I'm not saying that's not important in fiction, but I think you have a bit more leeway; you can suit yourself.
~ Ronald Frame
Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
~ Emily Blunt
I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.
~ Paul Tagliabue
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
~ Chris Lilley
We felt a responsibility to the McDonald brothers and to Ray Kroc to be as factual as possible. We didn't have a responsibility to make anyone look good or anybody look bad, just to try our best to be honest.
~ John Lee Hancock
This is reality, not a dream.
~ Martina Navratilova
What little factual information I absorbed in my life was gleaned from lectures the Professor gave to Gilligan. For
~ Augusten Burroughs
Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
~ Steven Spielberg
To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.
~ Masha Gessen
They matters of correct usage pale in importance behind coherence, classic style, and overcoming the curse of knowledge, to say nothing of standards of intellectual conscientiousness. If you really want to improve the quality of your writing, or if you want to thunder about sins in the writing of others, the principles you should worry about the most are not the ones that govern fused participles and possessive antecedents by the ones that govern critical thinking and factual diligence.
~ Steven Pinker
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
~ Frank Black
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny.
~ Christopher Guest
When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.
~ Joshua Micah Marshall
The inability of a state body to accept factual criticism and to make amends should worry every Israeli citizen.
~ Bezalel Smotrich
My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
~ George Armstrong Custer