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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as comedy pieces in the vein of performance monologue, such as you might get with Richard Pryor, or Lenny Bruce, or George Carlin. So I don't feel vulnerable because I know the line of demarcation between "Writer Kevin" and "Narrative Kevin.

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions.

I wanted to tell stories that moved. Nothing stays the same, and that's why photography is important. The world flickers and changes, and that's why video is important.

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.