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Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.