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All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened.

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and wondrous. But always we come back to the way the earth is now.

All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed.  Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet.  When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.

All true stories end in death.

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect

All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

almost all novels are love stories.

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever.

A lot of the earliest Instagram celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.