- Bureaucrats
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- Nov 07, 2020
All The Facts Quotes
On the difference between hindsight and honest judgment.
One line calls it intellectually dishonest to judge past decisions with information nobody actually had at the time — a sharp point that shows up repeatedly here. An actor makes a related case, close to the spirit of Character.
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- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very intelligent kid. I used my intelligence to support my passions. When it came to comic books, I became enthralled in the whole universe. I had to know all the facts and timelines. The whole fictional universe was real to me.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020