Taking pictures and making up stories is a dangerous business.
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Alma was always making up stories when she got nervous.
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Inevitably I was making up stories to myself, retreating into myself.
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I remember my mother making up stories to explain away her bruises.
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Feb: Trump accuses the "FAKE NEWS media" of making up stories and sources.
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I stop making up stories about them or judging myself for doing so.
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In most cases, people don't just lie because they like making up stories.
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Probably. I would have no way of knowing if someone was making up stories.
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"On the other projects, I was making up stories in my head," she says.
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When Mr. Tallent was about 12, he started making up stories about eccentric characters.
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They have gotten it wrong for two years, and now are making up stories & sources!
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The police use contemptible means such as making up stories, fabricating facts, issuing threats, etc.
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They'd ask about my high school or my childhood and I found myself making up stories.
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Former Trump aide Sam Numberg has confessed to making up stories in order to troll the press.
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Trump has denounced Wolff as a "loser," accusing the author of making up stories for the book.
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"People are making up stories about 'the other' — Muslims, Trump voters, whoever 'the other' is," she said.
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Trump later tweeted accusing Cohen of making up stories to get out of legal trouble in New York.
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He spent much of his time making up stories, which he'd take to school to present to his teachers.
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Trump furthered that on Friday, claiming that Democrats were making up "stories of sadness and grief" for political advantage.
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Then I thought, oh, my gosh, here comes the fodder, the hoopla, everyone pointing fingers, complaining, making up stories.
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Mongeau, on the other hand, has been accused of lying and making up stories basically throughout her entire YouTube career.
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You describe how you started making up stories about what happened in Iraq because that's what people wanted to hear.
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Dobbs, other right-wing hosts and Trump have no such history of making up stories about crimes committed by white people.
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Most people will flip if the Government lets them out of trouble, even if.... ....it means lying or making up stories.
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They want to scare everybody into making up stories that are not true by catching them in the smallest of misstatements. Sad!......
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Manigault Newman is hyping a new memoir, and the White House has accused her of making up stories to promote her book.
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"They want to scare everybody into making up stories that are not true by catching them in the smallest of misstatements. Sad!"
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" Sajudin's ex-wife called his credibility into question as well, telling the New York Daily News, "He's infamous for making up stories.
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And that's what boosts their imagination, that's what builds up their whimsy: making up stories on top of all the stories that they're told.
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The same poll showed just 11 percent of Republican voters believe the press isn't making up stories about the president and White House officials.
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Prosecutors have accused Cortez of making up stories about her abuse to justify the alleged abortion, although DNA tests have confirmed the baby's father.
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The woman who triggered Chris Brown's arrest has a history of making up stories about people threatening to kill her ... according to her former roommate.
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"Most people will flip if the Government lets them out of trouble, even if it means lying or making up stories," Trump tweeted back in April.
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Second, consistently making up stories to maintain your anonymity, as travel writing sounds like fun in theory, like you're a spy, but in fact it's very stressful.
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Users are making up rules at the same time they're making up stories, which can cause serious problems if not everyone has the same rules in mind.
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I wasn't sneaking around or making up stories, but I was omitting details and padding the edges of emotional conversations in hopes of making them easier for everyone.
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Trump on Wednesday attacked Cohen, accusing him of making up stories to "get a deal" and falsely claiming that the charges he pleaded to are not actually crimes.
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In an interview last year, Mr. Skhosana denied the allegations of corruption in the town and accused Mr. Magaqa of making up stories to further his political ambitions.
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According to Kwon, fans were inspired by "yaoi" -- a kind of Japanese manga that features gay relationships between male couples -- and began making up stories about their favorite stars.
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He demanded an apology from the "failing" New York Times and accused the news media of making up stories and sources, even as he said he wanted those sources apprehended.
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President Donald Trump accused Bob Woodward of "making up stories" in a tweet Wednesday morning, in his latest attack on the Washington Post journalist's upcoming book about the Trump White House.
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Making up stories about what we would do if we met a Triceratops — in my opinion, the friendliest looking dinosaur — although my mother would remind me that they were still dinosaurs.
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" She kept a diary and, her family recalled in the statement announcing her death, "demonstrated a vivid imagination, by making up stories from her daily experiences, developing into a young griot.
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Trump himself suggested last week that Mueller's prosecutors gave Flynn a "great deal because they were embarrassed by the way he was treated" and attempted to "scare" him into making up stories.
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Rhimes, who was the keynote speaker at the summit, told the audience of 300+ girls about how writing and making up stories helped her find herself as a "very smart, not cute" kid.
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The tomboyish Lee and the sometimes petulant Persons, who was sent away by his parents to spend his summers in Monroeville, became close friends and would spend hours reading and making up stories.
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After all, while the president has spent the last several months trying to smear Cohen as a liar and a turncoat, this tweet is still up: ....it means lying or making up stories.
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When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.
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Making up stories about what we'd do if we ever met a triceratops – in my opinion, the friendliest dinosaur, though my mom would always remind me that, friendly or not, it's still a dinosaur.
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" Though Trump said he does not believe Cohen will cooperate with investigators, the president said "most people will flip" to avoid trouble with the government, "even if it means lying and making up stories.
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At the same time, he has both accused Michael Cohen of making up stories to clinch a deal as well as insisted that the campaign finance violations Cohen pleaded guilty to are not crimes.
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She wanted a beautiful, dutiful child she could groom to be a debutante, and instead she got one who was dreamy, willful and overweight, more interested in making up stories than in clothes or hairstyles.
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Making up stories and acting them out provides an outlet to express your feelings, and it encourages you to collaborate with those around you — with family at home or even friends on a video chat.
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He had portrayed the women as making up stories to cause trouble, and few, if any, aides in the White House considered conducting their own investigations to discover what might have taken place, the officials said.
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It's not: When Mr. Trump is not making up stories about millions of illegal voters, he has argued that if the presidency were decided by popular vote, he would have campaigned differently and still would have won.
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The president has accused Cohen of making up stories to "get a 'deal'" and said in a tweet that he has "such respect" for Manafort because he did not "break" like Cohen by providing prosecutors with damaging information.
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But he also noted that Mr. Howe was "a convicted felon, liar and discredited manipulator" who had admitted doctoring emails and making up stories involving Mr. Cuomo and his father in order to make himself seem more important.
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And, there's this -- our Cardi and Offset sources say the rumors of him cheating on her with Jade are BS ... the couple believes both women are just "clout chasers," trying to get some pub by making up stories.
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I remember lots of games where I faced hard choices and desperate struggles on far-flung battlefields, but in the wake of Thrones of Britannia I worry that I've just been making up stories for myself this whole time.
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Nickelback is going after one of the biggest insurance companies in the world, claiming the company is making up stories so it doesn't have to pay up millions for the cancellation of the group's tour due to Chad Kroeger's medical condition.
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Attacks on the "fake news" media have become a staple of the Trump administration — and nearly half of voters, including the vast majority of Republicans, believe the president when he claims that the media is making up stories about him.
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When questioned about stories that seemed to allude to Stalinist conformism and paranoia, Lem said the same thing that Liu says about geopolitical interpretations of his trilogy—that he was not writing a veiled assessment of the present but merely making up stories.
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" (And according to CNN, Hicks, who is dating Porter, helped write that statement defending him.) The Times reports that White House aides are now saying Porter "misled" Kelly "about the severity of the allegations" and "portrayed the women as making up stories to cause trouble.
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Over the past few years, Netflix has embraced a smart strategy of adapting beloved children's books into animated films, and one such adaptation is The Gruffalo, a clever rhyming tale of a mouse who learns a valuable lesson after making up stories to get out of trouble.
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On Friday, Trump insisted he did not know about the June 85033 meeting at Trump Tower while suggesting in a series of tweets that Cohen was "making up stories" about him and Trump Jr. in order to ease scrutiny from federal prosecutors investigating Cohen's ownership of New York City taxi medallions.
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His behavior in the last couple of days highlights the unfitness: an irresponsible provocation of the Muslim world; a lie about NBC News making up stories; a ridiculous new claim that the tape of him bragging about molestation is a hoax; an insult at a ceremony to honor Native Americans.
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Horowitz learned firsthand as a CEO how elusive it can be when he took stock of his company, only to discover it was made up of "screamers who intimidated their people," others who "neglected to give any feedback" and at least one compulsive liar who excelled at sucking up to Horowitz and also making up stories from whole cloth.
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I was a pretentious teenager — by high school I ran with a crowd that tried to get into bars by ordering cocktails we read about in P. G. Wodehouse — and it came as no surprise to anyone who knew me at 16, sipping espresso and reading "The Flowers of Evil," that I ended up spending my adulthood making up stories about orphans named Baudelaire.
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Woodward said the man, who implicated Putin in the meddling, turned down an offer in 2016 from the CIA to be resettled in the U.S. CNN and the New York Times reported more recently that in 2017 the informant gave in and agreed to move to the U.S. State-controlled Russian media identified the man publicly last fall as Oleg Smolenkov, downplayed his role at the Kremlin and suggested he was a heavy drinker who was making up stories.
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Em – The main character. She loves reading, making up stories about Dancer, Vita's reindeer puppet, and her special emerald ring. She is the narrator of the story. She is a little overweight but has lovely blonde hair.
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Colbert and his lead guest try to help find homes for dogs up for adoption by making up stories about them (such as claiming one dog knows the lyrics to the Frozen song "Let It Go", but will not sing them).
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They thought she was making up stories to gain attention, and had her go to "imagination counseling" to try to tame her from telling crazy stories of her parents. The memoir also alleges physical and emotional abuse inflicted by Gregory's father.
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During Hardin's stay in prison, his first wife, Jane, died, on November 6, 1892. While in prison, he wrote an autobiography. He was well known for wildly exaggerating or completely making up stories about his life. He claimed credit for many murders that cannot be corroborated.
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Rossi moved often in her childhood and lived in Mexico and Venezuela. Rossi currently lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons. When not writing, she enjoys reading, painting, and counting down the minutes until she can get back to making up stories about imaginary people.
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She was born in County Cork, Ireland on 27 April 1855. Her father was Canon Fitzjohn Stannus Hamilton, rector and vicar-choral at St. Faughnan's cathedral in Rosscarbery. As a child she enjoyed making up stories, and won prizes for her writing at school. She was educated at Portarlington College.
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That night, Isabel sneaks out of her room to rob the mansion. Instead, she is brutally attacked by dolls. Judy, in the hallway, briefly sees the attack, and she rushes to tell her father David. However, David is a neglectful and uncaring father, and he and Rosemary accuse Judy of making up stories.
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Tuckwell-Smith enjoyed acting from a young age and said "I've always been a dreamer – imaginative and creative. As a child I loved putting on plays and making up stories to perform for my parents or my toys!" After finishing high school, Tuckwell-Smith was accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and graduated three years later.
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When he was sentenced, Hardin claimed to have killed 42 men, but contemporary newspaper accounts attributed only 27 deaths to him. While in prison, Hardin studied law and wrote an autobiography. He was well known for wildly exaggerating or completely making up stories about his life. He claimed credit for many killings that cannot be corroborated.
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Lavinia Derwent was the pen name of the Scottish author and broadcaster Elizabeth Dodd MBE (1909–1989). She was born in an isolated farmhouse in the Cheviot Hills some seven miles from Jedburgh and began making up stories about animals at an early age. She also wrote a version of Greyfriars Bobby. Her autobiographical books include her Border and Manse series.
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Nors was born in Herning, Denmark, the youngest of three children. As a child, she enjoyed making up stories that her mother, a teacher and painter, would write down and read back to her. At age eleven, she began writing her own stories, poems, and plays. In 1999, Nors graduated from Aarhus University with a degree in literature and art history.
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Bernier-Grand was born and raised in Puerto Rico. As a child, she enjoyed writing and making up stories. She obtained a B.S. from the Catholic University of Puerto Rico in 1968; a M.S. from University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez in 1972. In the late 1970s, she moved to the United States mainland to pursue doctoral studies in advanced mathematics at the University of Connecticut.
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Proud was born in Hertfordshire and was an only child. As a young girl, she enjoyed making up stories, and at age 14 she discovered the historical fiction of Mary Renault. Renault would become one of her chief influences as a writer. Proud began her career as a picture researcher in 1971, during which time she developed an interest in the works of Florentine painter Botticelli.
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Many authors, starting with the late fifth-century BC historian Thucydides, have accused him of making up stories for entertainment. However, Herodotus states that he is merely reporting what he has seen and been told, on several occasions saying that he does not himself believe the story that he reports. A sizable portion of the information he provides has since been confirmed by historians and archaeologists.
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Sue Lynn was "small and uncoordinated for her age", and her mother encouraged her to spend her time reading. She became an avid reader, and also enjoyed telling over stories and making up stories to entertain herself and others. She studied at Drake University from 1950 to 1952, and then transferred to Northwestern University for one year. She originally planned to become a journalist, but while attending Northwestern decided to major in psychology instead.
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Blume has recalled, "I spent most of my childhood making up stories inside of my head." She graduated from Battin High School in 1956, then enrolled in Boston University. In the first semester, she was diagnosed with mononucleosis and took a brief leave from school before graduating from New York University in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in Education. In 1951 and 1952, there were three airplane crashes in her hometown of Elizabeth.
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Ending up in a relatively isolated rural town in Mendocino County, Bell writes that she "grew up . . . spending a lot of time reading, walking in the woods, and making up stories." As a teenager Bell attended a college program for low-income and at-risk students hosted by Humboldt State University, where she took classes in Shakespeare and composition. When Bell was 17 she traveled in Europe, including England, where she met her British relatives.
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In August 2010, Bangalore based marketing specialist Anupam Mukerji revealed himself to be the person behind the blog. He said he had "never met a cricketer in his life", and was just making up stories. He never expected it to become this big, he remarked, adding that the Fake Player ended up getting legitimized by the media frenzy. He was inspired by the popularity of a similar blog by Fake Steve Jobs, and the Richard Gere movie The Hoax.
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To drown out the sound, rather than seek out company, he began making up stories but could never finish any of them. He remembers " a great one" and starts to tell it: : He describes a scene before a fire that is about to go out. A man, Bolton, is standing there in his dressing gown awaiting the arrival of his doctor, Holloway, who we learn later may be the name of Henry’s own doctor. It is late, past midnight.
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Lonely and insecure, Tenskwatawa attempted to make up for his deficiencies by boasting and making up stories about how talented and important he was. His depression and alcoholism worsened as he grew older, making him unable to provide for his wife and several children.Edmunds, The Shawnee Prophet, pp. 30–32. In 1794, nineteen-year-old Tenskwatawa was present at the Battle of Fallen Timbers with two of his brothers, Tecumseh and Sauwauseekau, but he did not distinguish himself as a warrior.
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Whole language: With this model, language is kept whole rather than segmented into fragments or skills. Within this philosophy, children are expected to learn to read and write in the same manner that they learn to talk. Reading, writing and oral language are considered to be intertwined. Some strategies according to the whole language model include encouraging the child to learn to read by "reading," and making up stories that they think go along with the pictures in the book.
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In 1988, he played the baseball coach in the film Eight Men Out. In 2012, Berry ---now a grandfather---published two children's books, Artie the Awesome Apple and Clyde the Clumsy Camel. He told the Topeka Capital-Journal he began writing the books in December 2011 and kept on after his wife told him they were "not bad." The newspaper said Berry often entertained his children on long drives to spring training by making up stories about three friendly ghosts.
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Reluctantly at first, Blue takes Billy along on walks in the woods and begins making up stories about the boy's adventures with the plush toy animals the parents have bought for him. Blue invites his illustrator friend Ernest to join them at the house, and together they begin to develop the Winnie-the-Pooh books. Daphne returns to the house after Blue sends her a poem, "Vespers", that she has published in Vanity Fair. Olive returns following her mother's death.
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Cafritz was raised Catholic in the segregated Jim Crow South. As a child, she attended a Catholic elementary school for Black children. Cafritz traces her love of art back to her childhood, at least to the age of seven or eight, when she was mesmerized by her parents' print of the painting Bottle and Fishes by Georges Braque, a French cubist. She studied it closely, rearranging elements of the painting in her head, and, as she got older, making up stories based on it.
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In August 2010, Bangalore based marketing specialist Anupam Mukerji revealed himself on television and newspapers as the person writing the blog. He said he had "never met a cricketer in his life", and was just making up stories. He never expected it to become this big, he remarked, adding that the Fake Player ended up getting legitimised by the media frenzy. He said he was inspired by the popularity of a similar blog by Fake Steve Jobs, and the Richard Gere movie The Hoax.
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McCartney has eight grandchildren. McCartney said in an interview with the BBC that the title of the book came from one of his grandchildren who "...used to call me 'Grandad' - just happened one day to say 'Grandude' and it kind of stuck...So the other kids started calling me 'Grandude'". The title is also a reference to McCartney's 1968 song "Hey Jude". McCartney started making up stories about Grandude, who he conceived of "as a kind of retired hippie having adventures with his grandchildren".
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Returning to Oakland in the early 1980s, Mowry began working with kids at a youth center, reading to them and often making up stories because there were very few books to which inner-city youth could relate. Later, he began to write the stories.Boston Globe Magazine, October 31, 1993 In 1988, Mowry sent one of his stories to Howard Junker, editor of Zyzzyva magazine in San Francisco. Junker rejected the tale but asked to see more work, and published the second story Jess sent.
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Nevertheless, there may be a "basis of fact, in a planned act of piety" behind this story. On the other hand, Malcolm Godden says the story is simply "a 12th Century legend... and those 12th Century historians were always making up stories about kings from Anglo-Saxon times". The site of the episode is often identified as Thorney Island (now known as Westminster), where Canute set up a royal palace during his reign over London.The Palace of Westminster Factsheet G11, General Series, Revised March 2008Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Some commenters on Wright's Facebook page were skeptical of his claims, pointing to differences in the costume between the two videos; Wright explained the differences by saying he wanted, and made, a better cloak for the second video. Krahbichler accepted Wright's claims. "It would be too much of a hassle just to play along for this long, and making up stories that fit so well," he wrote shortly after the second video was posted. "I believe it is very safe to say that PWW is indeed the creator".
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As they still work together, Pierce reluctantly accepts that Paddy is still part of Rhona's life but when he learns that Rhona and Paddy kissed just before his and Rhona's wedding, he confronts her on their wedding night and rapes her. Rhona reports Pierce to the police but Pierce initially convinces him and Marlon that she's back on the painkillers and making up stories about him to cover herself but Rhona and Vanessa tell them the truth. Disgusted, Paddy and Marlon support Rhona. Paddy and Chas rekindle their relationship.
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Jay keeps making jokes about Mitch's job something that Mitch does not appreciate much. Things get more intense when Mitch says that he has a professional meeting with radio DJ Booker Bell (Phil Hendrie) whom Jay admires and he appears at the meeting uninvited. Mitch feels embarrassed with Jay's behavior and he asks him to leave because he is working. Manny (Rico Rodriguez) sees the tension and he tries to make them understand that what they are doing is not on purpose to upset the other by making up stories similar to theirs presenting them as his problem.
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She reported that when her son was ill, he spent the day making up stories about images in magazines and she asked Murray if pictures could be employed in a clinical setting to explore the underlying dynamics of personality. Murray wanted to use a measure that would reveal information about the whole person but found the contemporary tests of his time lacking in this regard. Therefore, he created the TAT. The rationale behind the technique is that people tend to interpret ambiguous situations in accordance with their own past experiences and current motivations, which may be conscious or unconscious.
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She is shocked to learn this and apologises to both of them but on learning of Bob and Gennie's one-night stand, throws him out and demands a divorce. She soon regrets this and tries to reconcile with him but he is not interested so Viv gets jealous when he befriends any other females. She also tries using the twins to get his attention and even fakes a break-in to the shop. She also tries making Bob jealous by pretending that she has moved on and making up stories about men she has met, but to no avail.
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As a child she had no particular intention of becoming an author, and when she finished her education became a journalist, first with the Manchester Guardian and then with the Glasgow Herald. She had always enjoyed making up stories and a friend persuaded her to try her hand at writing; her earliest published works were stories in children's annuals. Kyle mostly wrote books for children, producing a stream of titles between the 1930s and 1980. Many of these were historical novels designed for a young audience, with heroines such as Charlotte Brontë, Mary II of England, Florence Nightingale and Clara Schumann.
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Meloy and Ellis first conceived the idea for the book before Meloy formed the indie folk-rock band The Decemberists in 2000. When they first moved to Portland, Meloy and Ellis were living in a warehouse where they "had this idea of working on a novel together ... because we enjoyed making up stories and playing off one another's creative impulses." Meloy was influenced by books that he read growing up, including Tolkien, and Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain. Meloy cites Piers Anthony's Xanth novels as a "direct influence", noting the "world within the real world and the implausibility of the whole enterprise".
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Chairmen can help making up stories or can ignore real security issues. The refugees themselves may manipulate the selection process. They may not mention that they have recently married in order not to delay their departure or they make themselves younger or older in order to, putatively, increase their chances for resettlement. They may even exaggerate their level of vulnerability as has been noticed in Kakuma: men staged violent attacks on themselves or their dwellings and women pretended rapes; they may be hiding their military or rebel past, or change their ethnicity, in order to belong to a certain persecuted group.
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He stated that these various Elders had chosen him to disseminate the information because he had been involved in both hereditary witchcraft and Gardnerian Wicca and because he was based in New Zealand, thereby making it hard for anyone to trace their identities. Despite Liddell claiming that the material he was putting forward came from various sources, the historian Ronald Hutton noted that it was all presented in a "single, dogmatic, authorial voice", with no indication of where the different pieces of information came from. Hutton also asserted that Liddell's changing claims would be entirely consistent with a single individual making up stories and changing them as they went along.
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Since 1995, Hallgrímur has been working on his cartoon self and alter-ego called Grim. A Tintin-style mélange of Dracula and Pinocchio, the long-nosed and fang-toothed character symbolizes the role of the artist/writer, who sucks blood out of real people's lives and then goes on making up stories about them. Hallgrímur has made paintings and drawings featuring Grim, and devoted a couple of exhibitions to this strange fellow. A catalogue, “Best of Grim”, was published in Iceland in 2004, by Forlagid, and in 2005 French publisher Actes Sud published a book, Les Contes de Grim, featuring all the existing Grim works.
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Gretchen asks Linda to help her host "marital aid" parties for women. For each different group of women, Linda and Gretchen adapt their strategies, such as making up stories about Bob's lack of sexual prowess in order to break the ice, and better sell the sex toys. Meanwhile, Bob is apprehensive when he fills in for his friend as the cook for a college fraternity, Beta Upsilon Pi. However, he finds the frat's members—including Pud, Hefty Jeff, and Turd—to be down to earth, dorky, and friendly. Pud, the Beta president, explains that they are unpopular and are constantly being pranked by the snooty rival frat, the Alphas.
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It was in this setting that she began to investigate the local artist L. S. Lowry and was eventually to become an acknowledged expert on him. Her documentary on him, L.S. Lowry: A Private View, was made after she had interviewed the artist personally, which she did several times during his later life. This was in itself an achievement, given that Lowry was known to be difficult to pin down to an interview appointment and to any clear content and was inclined to amuse himself by making up stories. He first told Rohde he had given up painting long ago, but it was noticed that the paint on a canvas was wet.
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Meadows realises he needs to be tamed, if he is to be kept in CID, and he intends on keeping a close eye on him. Zain's experience on the streets means he is constantly slipping back into undercover mode, and he finds his habit of making up stories from his past a tough one to break. Zain was often considered courageous but reckless, always sailing close to the wind. In the second live episode, in which Sun Hill station is under siege, Zain goes against all protocol and risks his life by speeding across the road from the station in a car along with DS Phil Hunter as a gunman fires shots at them.
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Wagele was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, until she was 10 when her family moved to Berkeley, California. Elizabeth Wagele Biography at Amazon She spent much of her time drawing, playing the piano, or making up stories with her dolls as a child. Music played a major role in her life as a friend and spiritual guide, especially Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, and other classical and jazz composers. A gifted pianist who majored in music composition, she studied piano with Tanya Ury and Bernhard Abramowitsch and composition with Andrew Imbrie and graduated cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, Elizabeth Wagele About the Author at Harper Collins Publishers in 1961.
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In his review of the film, Jim Lippard described it as professionally produced with excellent cinematography and high-quality graphics and effects. He had no criticism of the acting, which is mostly shown as visual effects during voice-overs of interviews or narration. As a documentary it starts reasonably, though putting unusual emphasis on Darwin "making up stories" as a child, and has the professional historians as the first experts shown. Lippard thought the film veered into creationist areas when discussing the influence of Charles Lyell's uniformitarianism, showing Peter Bowler stating that it was then a settled question that the earth is of great age, but not today: in emails, Carl Wieland of Creation Ministries International and Steve Murray who directed the film advised that the statement was about the fact that there was no Young Earth creationist movement at that time.
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A onetime actor, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk, Ketchum credited his childhood love of Elvis Presley, dinosaurs, and horror for getting him through his formative years. He began making up stories at a young age and explained that he spent much time in his room, or in the woods near his house, down by the brook: '[m]y interests [were] books, comics, movies, rock 'n roll, show tunes, TV, dinosaurs [...] pretty much any activity that didn't demand too much socializing, or where I could easily walk away from socializing'. He would make up stories using his plastic soldiers, knights, and dinosaurs as the characters. He was also big on Halloween, and his mother, being '[...] pretty good with the sewing machine [...]', ensured young Ketchum had an authentic costume; his favorites were Peter Pan and Superman.
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