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Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated.

Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this was supposed to be their great week. The president gave a speech on terrorism that was not well received. They were working hard to tie Hillary Clinton to the president. Then along comes Donald Trump, and the story changes dramatically.

Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

Most nations have some type of creation story.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my lines, as I show up that day. You don't know what the rest of the story is, so you really rely on the people in the room that you're working with, so they can fill you in on what's going on, right around your particular lines.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

Most people are glad for somebody else to share their own story of how they have found spiritual help. The problems start when you begin to universalize your story - when your narrative becomes authoritative and begins affecting their lives as well.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Most people hear me do all these freestyles and never hear me tell a story.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.

Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.

Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.

Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.