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It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].

It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.

It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.

It's harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the fear that maybe somebody deep-pocketed, you know, with limited resources is going to come after us and can my organization afford to defend me?

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.

It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

It's much more fun as an actor, as well. If everything is on the page and you're spoon-feeding an audience you feel like your job is merely to say the words clearly because the structure of the story will take care of itself.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

It's nice when you can tell stories that brush up against the world we live in.

It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

It's not that I'm using my life to put on screen or in my acting, it's that, when you're living in the world, you're exposed to stories, to people, to things that feel foreign and unfamiliar. And I'm curious about those things, me personally.

It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.