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Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.

Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points.

You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected.

You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.

You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the challenge and the fun for a writer.

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

You're only as good as your last story.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

Your home should tell the story of who you are.

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.

You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture of images. People are used to seeing stories that way. They understand looking at pictures.

You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.

You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.

You've heard me talk about the quantum realm in Ant-Man which was certainly designed for that movie and for that story to take the notion of somebody who has the ability to shrink to another level we've never seen before, but as we were doing that, and studying it and talking to the science advisors who are always more than willing to spend an afternoon with us and talk about these amazing things - the quantum realm is another dimension.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

You want to find the right balance, but you have to have the Minions because people responded so much to them. We wanted to find a story that would make the Minions more a part of the story than they were in the first movie. In this one, as you know, they're disappearing. What's happening to the Minions? We made them a much bigger part of the movie in those terms.

You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.' That's my hope.

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.