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Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the story.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not ­having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.

For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of a certain type of woman or story. I always like those movies the best.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.