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It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his.

I told my whole life story in my book.

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.

I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

It's all about letting the story take over.

It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every character and all of their stories. They trust and love their readership. They're the ones who have invested in these stories.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.

It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but at the end, when you've watched the whole thing, it all feels inevitable.

It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

It's always the story that interests me.

Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.

It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.