Only a year later, their song "The Story of My Life" hit the U.S. country music charts.
"I have been blessed in my life to spend the majority of the last 10 years of my life working on the story of Billy Elliot, " said Daldry, calling it a "long, extraordinary journey".
In so many ways, the stories of the women in my life reflect the broader story of women in this country -- a story of both unyielding progress and also untapped potential.
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This was just the first of many occasions when her life story provided a context for my own career in the foothills of political journalism.
Yet, like most Americans, I was ignorant of the Jamestown story, even though I'd spent much of my life in Virginia.
"I think it's a matter of finding the right story to tell and carving out 16-18 months of my life to do it, " he says - adding he would want to make it independently to retain control "without the studio meddling with any creative aspects".
"The first story I ever told at The Moth was about taking my father off of life support, " said Daisy Rosario, who works as a producer of the live Moth shows and hosts her own storytelling show called Sunday Stories.
Five cameras and as many years later, I invited the world to see scenes from my son's first years-because the story of Gibreel's early life is also the story of Bil'in's resistance.
And every single day I walk into the Oval Office, and for all the days of my life, I will always remember that in no other nation on Earth could my story be possible, could your stories be possible.
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See, the thing is, with Barack, I found a real connection, because in his life story I saw so much of my own.
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