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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Access Always Boxes Century
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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Believe Dragons Dreams Even
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Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.

Cultivate Frame Life Long
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

Books Don Everything Five
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I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?

Bottles Coming Down Go
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Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

Lessons Anger Burns Mould
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Branches Cease Ear Enthusiasm
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

Wrote Lyrics That Were
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Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Climb Dragon Get Going
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Money Stopped Were Writing
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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Absolutely Agree Believe Clearly
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Jesus Cross Myself Loved
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Field Crowd Foolish Mirrors
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Movie Long Script Been
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

After Dragons Ending Even
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Calculations Does Dragon Him
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

Accuse Agony Created Did
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Because Book Create Different
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Business Closely Follow Life
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Major Communication Interact Century
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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

Being Condemned EU Glee
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After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States - the greatest privilege on planet Earth.

After Arrived Become Both
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

About Everybody Nineties Obligations
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

Ambitious Anyone Arrogant Competition
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Agony Bear Biological Blood
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

As Artist We're Always
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

About Always Any AnyOtherPlace
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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Believe Body Gone Wagon
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I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.

Become Chicago Felt Kid
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I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

Bulls Chicago Fan Growing
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Sad World Sorrow Young
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I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Learned Great Years Fight
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Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Any Aware Brought Hundred
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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
Antagonism Culture Feel Fuse
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Hitch your wagon to a star.

Hitch Star Wagon Your
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The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

Class Opposition History Development
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

Believe Better Feel God
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Solely Gods Cultures Power
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I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Again Comet Computation Did
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It is said that the 1966 coup that failed was strictly an Igbo coup, but then the irony of history is that it was the late General Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo who single-handedly dismantled the coup in Lagos, while my humble self, another Igbo-man rendered it immobile in the north.

1966 Coup Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi
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There is no humiliation I have not endured, no snare that has not been put in my path, no setup that has not been designed for me in my endeavour to use the path of peace to enforce the mandate that you bestowed on me one year ago.

Humiliation Endured Snare Enforce
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Agonizing Fine skin Vanity Application
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Learn to do you, find out what your strength is and capitalize on it. Stop following the bandwagon.

Learn Strength Capitalize Bandwagon
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My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.

Because Call Calling Close
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When I said fake it till you make it, I didn’t mean give birth in Lagos and pretend to have given birth in abroad. Please let’s put some sense in it abeg…

Fake it Mean Give birth Pretend
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Because Children Could Long
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