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The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views celebrity. All of a sudden, the film becomes about, "Come see this celebrity!" I'm not interested in that. I want to see a story.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasnt even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

There are also dozens and dozens of success stories; many couples have emailed me with their original posts. I love reading these stories, but confess I am not as interested in drawing them as the unfinished, elusive ones.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones... I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different 'Hamlets,' and every one has given me something different.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.

There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.