Quotes with true-story

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  • Aaliyah I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Antoine Fuqua I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Coville I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Anatole France I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Ann Beattie I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus I think it will be found that experience,
    the true source and foundation of all knowledge,
    invariably confirms its truth.
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Robertson Davies I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • David Mitchell I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • John McGahern I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Burnie Burns I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Anita Desai I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta 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.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Alice Munro I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • David Gemmell I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • William T. Sherman I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Henry David Thoreau I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Luigi Pirandello I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Adam Faith I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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