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    We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.

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    We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

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    we lived in the gaps between the stories

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    We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.

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    We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

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    Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

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    Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories -- and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.

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    Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

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    Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.

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    Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That's something that had never been done.

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    We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.

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    Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

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    Well, honor is the subject of my story.

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    Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

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    Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

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    Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.

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    Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

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    We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

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    Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

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    We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

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    Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

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    Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

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    Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

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    Well, why did you kill Jeremiah? And don't bother feeding me some story about how you just happened to wander along after he spontaneously died. I know you did this.

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    We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

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    We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

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    We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

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    We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

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    We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

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    We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you're still the same crew of friends. It's just the story that you have to tell.

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    We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

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    We love the flexibility that print and digital formats give us, and diving deep on a print feature can be one step in a longer project that generates a lot of digital stories.

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    We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

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    We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

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    We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

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    We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

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    We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

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    We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

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    We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

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    We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life.

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    We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”

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    We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

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    We need to make our faith our very own love story.

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    We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

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    We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

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    We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

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    We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and really wants to hear all the nuances of what we're saying.

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    We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.

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    We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

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    We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.