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Let's not intentionally turn a scarcity of housing for homeless veterans into a non-fictional reality.
Joel John Roberts: D.C.'s Willy Wonka Approach to Un-Housing Homeless Veterans Joel John Roberts 2011
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There only has been, and forever will be, seven ironclad rules for good, steamy literary sex full disclosure: the shadowy and mysterious eighth rule added in 1988 specifically for the Seoul Summer Olympics only applies when you're detailing non-fictional accounts of time spent in a Turkish prison.
Jeff Klima: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Love Scenes Jeff Klima 2011
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These, at least, were fictional characters created by J.K. Rowling, while in the non-fictional real world, Bush and Cheney went on a rampage, causing the deaths and maiming of hundreds of thousands of people overseas, including many women and children, pushing domestic policies that harmed countless U.S. citizens, including many women and children, with Dick Cheney even pushing his own version of the cruciatus curse through his torture program.
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Let's not intentionally turn a scarcity of housing for homeless veterans into a non-fictional reality.
Joel John Roberts: D.C.'s Willy Wonka Approach to Un-Housing Homeless Veterans Joel John Roberts 2011
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But in the non-fictional culture of big time college sports, Tressel knows he can't have both -- a winning program and unpolluted honor code.
Jon Kerr: Jim Tressel's Road Taken Jon Kerr 2011
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I wrestled with that for a little bit, and my sense was that if I gave myself permission to invent, and I've seen this done very beautifully in other television projects, to invent fictional characters that guide us through the non-fictional landscape, then I felt I would be in a really good strong position.
Exclusive: Frank Darabont on His New TNT Show and Leaving The Walking Dead 2012
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Where very few writers in history had ever been able to live off of their royalties as authors, suddenly there was a whole class of post-WWII "professional writers" who often supplemented their pay with journalism and teaching, but primarily relied heavily on the fruits of their book-labors -- fictional and non-fictional.
Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010
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Of course that was before MTV launched its new flagship series, "Jersey Shore," a non-fictional close-up of young people though, in this case all of legal drinking age drinking, clubbing, having lots of sex and talking about it ad nauseum.
MTV's 'Skins': Too hot for American TV? Liz Kelly 2011
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As political goals go, universal suffrage is pretty concrete and non-fictional.
Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy 2009
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But in the non-fictional culture of big time college sports, Tressel knows he can't have both -- a winning program and unpolluted honor code.
Jon Kerr: Jim Tressel's Road Taken Jon Kerr 2011
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