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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."
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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
Experience
"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."
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"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed."
Leadership
"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
Fact
"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
Movies
"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."
Life
"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
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"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history."
History
"One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia."
Life
"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."
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