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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

- Christian Slater

They`re all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That`s why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they`re like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.

- Guy Ritchie

Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn`t make it factual. To buy it is to feed it. - about tabloid magazines.

- Michael Jackson

Anyone who lives, as I do, in a world of imagination must make an enormous and unnatural effect to be factual in the ordinary sense. I confess I would be a terrible witness in court because of this-and a terrible journalist. I feel compelled to a story the way I see it and this is seldom the way it happened, in all its documentary detail.

- Federico Fellini

We disagreed at trial on factual and legal matters, ... Nothing dramatically changed our position on those issues.

- Michael Burke

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

- Boris Pasternak

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn`t matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

- David Brock

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn`t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn`t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

- David Attenborough

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

- Martin Bashir

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

- Jonathan Dimbleby

There has to be a factual recording of what actually happened. A trial is the only way to do that.

- Dexter King

This is simply an attempt by committee Democrats to clarify the factual record, where Mr. Starr was vague, evasive, forgetful or perhaps not altogether candid.

- James Jordan

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

- Allison Hill

If you need to understand it to make policy, you should turn first to people who are scientists and engineers for factual information.

- Andrew J. Spano

I consider estimation of time of death to be an interpretative finding rather than a factual statement, and it is not this office`s practice to include this estimate as part of any autopsy report,

- Angie Wellman

One of the things that Sara Jane was asked in court yesterday by Deputy District Attorney Eleanor Hunter was, `Are you pleading guilty because you are in truth and in fact guilty and do you stipulate that there is a factual basis for the guilty plea?` to which she replied, `Yes.` In light of what she said after walking out of court, we can only assume she was lying to the judge, or lying to the press to save face. The judge is obviously concerned.

- Barb Zoodsma