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“It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.”

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Author:James Franco

“I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.”

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Author:Andy Cohen

“When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.”

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Author:Michael Madsen

“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.”

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Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“All true stories end in death.”

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Book:Blade of Tyshalle

Source: Blade of Tyshalle

“In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.”

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Author:Uwe Boll

“I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.”

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Author:Olivia Munn

“I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.”

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Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.”

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Author:John Lee Hancock

“In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.”

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Book:African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston

Source: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston

“Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.”

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Book:The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

“Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.”

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Author:Anne Tyler