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• The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Sex, Real

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Real, Media

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• I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Real, Mosques

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• My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Gossip, Fans

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• I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Diane Sawyer as Website Gets 500-Millionth Member" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2010.

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• The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important." "It was probably important to her.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Real, Sacrifice

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

  Sara Gruen

  Real, War, What If

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• A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Baptism, Stories

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• The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared, and detested. I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or a member of any 'inferior' group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same.

  John Howard Griffin

  Real, Men, Numbers

  "Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition".

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• I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

  Ed McBain

  Real, Media, Ideas

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• The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

  Stewart Udall

  Real, Stories, West

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• You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.

  Patrick Symmes

  Real, Failure, Science

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• When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

  Louis Walsh

  Real, Book, Writing

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• It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

  Christian Slater

  Real, Book, Dark

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Real, Mistake, Writing

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• Will you miss him Holly?” he asked suddenly. [...] “No,” she said. “I will not miss him.” But her eyes told the real story.

  Eoin Colfer

  Real, Eye, Missing

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Stories

  Alastair Reynolds, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Baxter, Hannu Rajaniemi, Paul Graham Raven (2012). “Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins”, p.39, Arc

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• There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

  Errol Morris

  Real, Drama, Stories

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Giving Up, Real, People

  "Gretchen Carlson Gets Real". Interview with Mark Joseph, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2015.

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• Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.

  Charles Adams

  Sex, Real, Civilization

  Charles Adams (1993). “For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

  Lil Rel Howery

  Art, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss says, "You're wife is a spy. Shoot her." In the real story, he just went back and did it, which would have been a short film. Therefore, I had to spend some time exploring what you would do.

  Steven Knight

  Morning, Real, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

  Sam Pressman

  Dream, Giving Up, Real

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• Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.

  Charlize Theron

  Real, Dark, Humanity

  "Charlize Theron calls upon her shape-shifting powers once again". Interview with Rebecca Traister, www.elle.com. March 11, 2008.

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