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fiction remember stranger
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction life love whether
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. Abraham Verghese
fiction realizing social
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. Doris Lessing
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction documentaries directors
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury
fiction imagine terrible
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt
stories
Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like. Jason Katims
stories earth events
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about. C. S. Lewis
stories ends
All you really have in the end are your stories. Burt Reynolds
stories research fantasy
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. Alan Dean Foster
stories next firsts
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. Charles Colson
stories said knows
All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125) Elizabeth Strout
stories four philippines
I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more. Denis Johnson
stories seekers
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. Edgar Allan Poe
stories speak shoulders
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me. Eduardo Galeano
elements great hip hop jazz noticed people respect sampling scene
Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz. Herbie Hancock
elements emotions great human lie luminous natural poet poetry relations seems style
To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man. William Cullen Bryant
elements want streets
I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power. Tupac Shakur
elements express issue tactics
The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document. Christopher Hill
elements number performance
They went through a number of elements and a number of different scents, and their performance was very sub-par and unacceptable. Judy Pardonnet
elements world directors
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning. Joe Mantello
elements moments profit
Moments are the elements of profit Karl Marx
elements study found
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter... Margaret Atwood
elements care essentials
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour. Pope Benedict XVI