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A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I'm getting to have a go myself.

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.