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I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted.

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.