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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

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Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

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I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

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The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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