I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.
I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.
The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.
The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
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Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive...
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