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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
That claim was not intended to be a factual statement.
To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.
Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.
I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.
I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.
I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.
There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.
I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.
I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.
[about tabloid magazines] 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.
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.
It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.
Advocates of GMO labeling aren't seeking a warning label. We're simply asking for a factual, non-judgmental disclosure on the back of the package.
I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.
The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.
As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.
It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts are facts. Sugar is sweet - it's not a matter of opinion. It just is.
The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
Stan Lee is like the universal hero. He got every culture together by storytelling. He gave every community their own hero to follow, in fiction and actually in factual life.
To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.
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.
As ever, I caveat with saying that I don't write about the factual content of my C.I.A. experience. Ever. People who are working hard to save lots of lives depend on me to keep my mouth shut.
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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.
I came through the ranks of the BBC documentary department. I was lucky working during this drama doc era, where they did reconstructions, basically like cheap drama made by the factual department.
The orders and directives issued on the basis of government decisions should be exhaustive and factual. Deep and thorough examination is required before taking a decision on important policy matters.
The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a heck of a lot more about morality than every precise actual fact.
I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.
We felt a responsibility to the McDonald brothers and to Ray Kroc to be as factual as possible. We didn't have a responsibility to make anyone look good or anybody look bad, just to try our best to be honest.
We often say if you have traction, lead with traction. Talk about specific customers, usage numbers, revenue metrics - anything like that that really is clearly explicit and factual. Get that out in front early.