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"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Fact, Facts, Machine

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Fact, Mind

"Attitudes are more important than facts."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

Fact, Facts

"The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that."

Matt Cameron, American Musician

Fact, Night, Play

"We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her."

Patricia Heaton, American Actress

Fact, Fun, Help, Job

"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

Fact, Sense, Shakespeare, Will

"The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model."

Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian Scientist

Fact, Metaphysics, Years

"The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal."

Ginny B. Waite, American Author

Fact, Nations, Scandal, United

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

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

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"In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia."

Alex Chiu, American Businessman

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"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

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"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

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"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."

Movies, Writers

"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."

Woman, Women, Books

"I enjoy learning technical details."

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"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond."

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"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."

Woman, Women, Credit, Writers

"The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century."

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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

Chance, Hindsight, World

"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."

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