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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

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Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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All love stories are the same.

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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

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