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The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts, filling in as many details as possible. I also do a lot of research.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare doesn't require you to have a doctorate in his language or whatever to understand him. It just has to be directed and played right. It's all about scale and presence and getting these huge, epic stories across.

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of misery, and yet the misery ends up being slightly hilarious. And in terms of the warnings on the back of the books, that really started as an honest assessment of their marketability.

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do.

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around; undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.