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I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.

I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex.

I'm convinced that the Christian claim is really true, that this is just a warm up to the big event. That this is just the appetizer to the feast, and if we can plug into that and understand that this part of our story is just the introduction, it is not even the first line of the first paragraph, it's just the first letter or first word. We are just getting started.

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

Im known for impressions and family stories.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself. I write about growing up, my family, Maddie and getting pregnant. If I've lived it, why wouldn't I talk about it? I guess that's been the coolest thing - realizing that it's OK to just be myself and really tell my story.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do.

I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.