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The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive thinking, whether you are paying attention to a story or to an argument, or whatever. And what we know about the brain is the brain adapts to these types of tools.

The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that can connect and question, since I am not 18 years old anymore.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

The origin of each story is unique.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.

The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as well by starting businesses, and all the lives we've touched positively.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs.

The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views celebrity. All of a sudden, the film becomes about, "Come see this celebrity!" I'm not interested in that. I want to see a story.