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“Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”
— Brené BrownBrené Brown: The power of vulnerability
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“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“Art is a deception that creates real emotions — a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.”
— Marco TempestMarco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
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“If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.”
— Andrew StantonAndrew Stanton: The clues to a great story
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“Fear is … a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.”
— Karen Thompson WalkerKaren Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us
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“[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.”
— Itay TalgamItay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors
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“Science has become that horrible storyteller … who gives us all the details nobody cares about.”
— Tyler DeWittTyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun
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“We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.”
— Amy TanAmy Tan: Where does creativity hide?
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“In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.”
— Philippe StarckPhilippe Starck: Design and destiny
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“I can’t promise my child a life without bias — we’re all biased — but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.”
— Raghava KKRaghava KK: Shake up your story
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“Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.”
— Beeban KidronBeeban Kidron: The shared wonder of film
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“An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.”
— Aaron KoblinAaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
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“In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.”
— Joe SabiaJoe Sabia: The technology of storytelling
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“The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.”
— Andrew StantonAndrew Stanton: The clues to a great story
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“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”
— Isabel AllendeIsabel Allende: Tales of passion
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“We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.”
— Marco TempestMarco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented reality)
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“The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.”
— Peter GabrielPeter Gabriel fights injustice with video
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