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If only fire could talk, it would tell the stories of those that lit it!

Fire Talk Stories Lit it
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The only thing stopping you from achieving your dreams are the stories you keep telling yourself that you can't. Don't wait- act now. Regret nothing.

Achieving Dreams Yourself Act now
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

Story Destination May Our
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The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Children Read Simple Gratitude
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It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

About Around Best Environment
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Best Escape Interest Only
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

About Again Beginning Came
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Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Country Even Feeling Listen
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

Kind People We Nurtured
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Storyteller Love Being Telling
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Africa Background Cultural Highlight
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Dignity Break Matter Empower
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
Overnight Story Success Long
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

Adept Write Story Switch
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

Around Chopped Cut Get
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Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Come Discovering Every Experiences
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Caribbean Completion General Good
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

Great Great Stories Just Part
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Author Get Know Lost
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Always Am Believe How
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Awakening Dramatic Education Effects
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Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

Animal Chased King Most
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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

After Big Corners Days
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Certain Children Decided Had
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Any Because Definitely Embracing
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Any Dad Had He
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

Love Meeting New People
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Some stories are true that never happened.
Happened Never Some Stories
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There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

Because Believe Did Easy
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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.

Also Bible Laws Only
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

About Brothers Building Courtship
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Reality Times Best Escape
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do

About Great Kings Old
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Body Hid Hidden Mediums
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Continue Death End Enough
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Anything Because Choice Compulsive
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Give Experience Knowledge Talent
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

About Experiences Friends Little
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I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

About Disappointing Few Friends
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Blush Contain First Matter
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