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Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

Any story worth telling is worth embellishing.

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I'm getting to have a go myself.

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.