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• In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.

  Sherman Alexie

  Lying, Writing, Effort

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Drama, Character, Blood

  "'There Will Be Blood'". www.salon.com. December 26, 2007.

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• History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Drama, Moving, Knights

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.

  Dervla Murphy

  Moving, Past, Cities

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.39, The Overlook Press

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• I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and themes and even using certain words or images recurrently in my work, no matter how much I think I'm starting fresh. But I've always admired artists who made a specific sport of trying to visit different kinds of genres or mediums or modes - not just 'western' or 'detective', but comedy/tragedy, epic and miniature, traditional/experimental.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Sports, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Water, Soul, Majesty

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

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• I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

  Jason Pierce

  Past, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always try to get games of different genres. This is the reason Postal is a comedy, and Far Cry is a real, pure action movie - like Die Hard on an island - and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was my opportunity to do my epic, Braveheart, Lord Of The Rings, Gladiator movie. I try not to repeat myself in genres too much.

  Uwe Boll

  Real, Opportunity, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that's celebration.

  Shauna Niequist

  Beautiful, Tragedy, Different

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• I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.

  Samantha Newark

  Dream, Stars, Character

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• Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Jesus, Ascension, Spirit

  "The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray". Interview with Preston Sprinkle, www.patheos.com. January 11, 2016.

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• The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

  E. O. Wilson

  Myth

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• Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

  Novalis

  Men, Dramatic, Lyrical

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.65, SUNY Press

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• The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Sorry, America

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• The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

  Robert Grudin

  Tragedy, Dinner, Sauce

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.

  Eileen Myles

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life Is, Inconsequential

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Taken, Discovery, Achievement

  J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Institute of Physics (1972). “Reflections on the resonances of physics history”

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• How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.

  A. R. Rahman

  Guitar, Perfect, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare doesn't require you to have a doctorate in his language or whatever to understand him. It just has to be directed and played right. It's all about scale and presence and getting these huge, epic stories across.

  Ray Stevenson

  Stories, Way, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd say probably the most epic experience was before the Victoria's Secret show - I think it was before the casting - and I saw Naomi Campbell at a party. I was saying that I was nervous about my walk and she said "Come to my hotel tomorrow and we're going to practice." So I went in New York and we practiced in the hallway of her hotel with all of the hotel staff watching. She just said "Don't even flinch. Keep going!" It was hilarious, but I think that was kind of a confidence booster.

  Gigi Hadid

  New York, Party, Thinking

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

  Justin Adams

  Growing Up, Ideas, Lasers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a pretty epic battle "Part 2" of Twilight. It's really involved and it took us a few weeks to film it, because there was so many of us and it was such a large, massive war. I think they're really gonna love that. I feel like we've been working up to this the whole series and there was a bit of confrontation, but you never really got to see all the vampires go full force.

  Ashley Greene

  War, Twilight, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

  Anne Carson

  Sound, Pressure, Come Up

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.

  Elia Suleiman

  Father, Character, Years

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