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I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like Chucky or Saw or whatever, I'm like come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives. I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.

I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work if it were a man?" Well no, you can't make a man pregnant, so it's got to be a woman.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!

I also liked it when professors assigned us stories that they love. In general, I liked workshops more when they were more than just a workshop, when the professor took the time to actually guide us as young writers and teach us things it took them a long time to figure out on their own. I could probably write ten pages on this question.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer friends who start from a world, an object or some kind of concept that they then hone and widdle into a story. But, for me, it has to be a character that I can really sink my teeth into and live with, for months and months.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What's to be scared of?"" ~Vic

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story.

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

I always liked spy stories.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

I always try to tell the story the best possible way. I create the mood for each scene in a way that the audience feels that they are right there with me and they feel actually in the mood that was right for the scene.

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.