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"In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted."

Jessie Matthews, British Actress

Fact, Mind, Perfection

"I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me."

Elisabeth Rohm, American Actress

Fact,

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Fact, Facts

"I prefer fact to fiction."

Richard Attenborough, English Actor

Fact, Fiction

"I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded."

Frederic Remington, American Artist

Fact, Facts, Land

"The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system."

Talcott Parsons, American Sociologist

Fact, Facts, Importance, Problems, Will

"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."

Robert Redford, American Actor

Fact, Nothing, Now, Pretty

"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

Fact, Living, Wilderness

"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."

Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat

Fact, Meaning, Word

"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."

Malcolm Forbes, American Publisher

Fact, Facts, Fiction, Old

Explore more quotes by John H. Speke

"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death."

Death, Power, Family, Delight

"The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion."

Fact,

"I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."

Travel, Trust, Climate, Foreigners

"I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation."

Evil,

"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made."

Cows,

"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."

Trouble,

"My first occupation was to map the country."

Country, First, Occupation

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

Events,

"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

Work, Rest