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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Abide Clay Earth Everywhere
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Pattern Coherent Easier Little
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We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

Story Keep Get Set
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Any Authenticity Bible History
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Else Falling Greatest Pleasures
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I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that, at 23, if you're not in the Backstreet Boys, then you're never gonna make it.

Actor Aspiring Boy Everyone
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Today, the only currency you have is how good you are at storytelling.

Only currency Good Storytelling
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Every story has an end, but in life, every ending is a new beginning.

Every story End Life New beginning
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Stories are the common ground upon which a community is formed. To belong to a tribe is to believe and share the story of the tribe.

Stories Common ground Believe Tribe
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Down Draft First Generally
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Wrote Story What Really
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
Perfection Style Storytelling Type
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Sometimes our partners from other countries ask us why we have not got further with our reconciliation, as if we possess a magic to just get rid of this tragic history of ours.

Ask Countries Further Get
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I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

Call Come Fox Got
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The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

Any Aspect Character Important
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Also Art Artist Audience
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I see a boundless future for any proaducer — male or female. If you have a story to tell, go ahead and find ways to tell it.

Future Story Tell Find ways
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Aspects Elevated Histories History
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Question Story logic Powerful God
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

Humans Ecosystems History Life
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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Any Earlier Form Internal
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Am Because Days Dealing
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

After Anyone Before Even
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When a nation loses respect for history, straying from the harbor of safety becomes inevitable.

Nation Loses History Safety
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No matter how long, tough or rough a journey might be, when it comes to an end the distance becomes history.
No matter Journey Distance History
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I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

1940s 1970s Book Brooklyn
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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Different Different Way Everybody Got
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Love Men Novel Short
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I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Doing Everybody Learned Look
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If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

Gonna Name Real Real Story
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My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Around Body Bringing Constructing
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Any Beautiful Complete Context
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The art I do is an expression of who I am, what my history is, and the issues that bother me in terms of discrimination and racism.

Expression Issues Terms Racism
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With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.

Help Guidance Chapter History
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.
Am Capture Get Going
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

Boring Dreamed Dreams Idea
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Been Burn Destroy Else
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I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

Career Done Find Generally
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I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'

Could Less Okay People
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The surge in inventors and creative minds means we have the brains to change our story. What we lack is leadership.

Surge Inventors Creative mind Our story
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Special effect Telling story Pretty boring
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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Appalling History Idea Oppressed
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People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Absolute Been Diet Fed
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We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

Teach Children History Understand
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The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.
Arguments Change Person Mind
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