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I study history in order to give an interpretation.

Oliver Stone

What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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Narrative Suppose Trying
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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DNA Profound Purpose
It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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Film Imagine Tough
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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Concern Lying Real
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Campaigns Country Going People
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Agendas Bombs Country People
What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Believe Country People Understanding United States
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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might Positive Taken
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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Football Team War

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

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