Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made… — Black Rob Copy Share Image
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Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
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[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
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I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne]… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
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