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If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it.

If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done sloppily. It betrays the story. It can slow down the energy of the story you're telling.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't respond until it was later published on Thought Catalog, after which he sent me an email that said something very similar to, "I enjoyed reading this on Thought Catalog. Good job.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

If it gets to a situation where it turns into a debate, look, the person that I'm debating is the person that is writing the story or presenting the broadcast. They're not going to write the story in such a way that shows they lost.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

If more men would see a story of what it was like to be pregnant, and how it felt to be in a place where you had to make a decision about whether to keep a pregnancy, maybe they would feel differently about women's health care.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

If the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human begin will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower.  It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together. Jennifer and I discovered this story together, and it was evident to us we would only do it with each other.