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You have to forgive everyone for everything. You can’t cling on to any blame that you may be using to make sense of the story of your life.

Forgive Everyone Everything Any blame
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

Idea Story Noah Like
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Christianity Valuable Thing Whole
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When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

Else Hold Life Pen
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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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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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Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Power Tell Story Ability
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Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Side Story Lion Tale
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The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Beckham Confess Girl Her
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

Aboriginal Ant Anyone Anyone Else
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When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Conversion Deserve Done Gratitude
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

About Comfort Drop Get
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Beach Headlands Sand
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Again Anyone Because Betray
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
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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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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

Back Bible Get Giving
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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

Story Measure Us all
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The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them

Among DoTheRightThing Fans How
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

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It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great American stage of Broadway. In fact, I've dedicated much of the latter half of my life to ensuring the story of the internment is known.

Known Story Life Fact
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Any Come Just Plan
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

Voice Commands Story Ear
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

About Almost Always Best
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

Degree Expectations Life Like
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Emancipation History Interesting Itself
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Art Conventional Dealing History
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When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now...

Get End Story Know
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I speak and speak, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Speak Listener Retains Words
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My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

Story Thousands Children World
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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Hold Many Odyssey Story
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

Anything Audience Believe Effective
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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.

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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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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.

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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.
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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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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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You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

End Financial Gain Somebody
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Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

Am Because Ensemble Every
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Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.

Became Came Chi Direct
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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

Actor Am Because Chi
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It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

End Got Guy Hit
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Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Almost Any Certainly Choose
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