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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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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
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Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
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