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I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
Spike Lee

Live, Place, City

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
Mindy Kaling

Life, Romantic, Help

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.
Kevin Costner

Heart, End, Game

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
Carly Rae Jepsen

Before, Kiss, Terrible

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.
Tom Waits

Time, Cool, Big

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
James Buchan

Foreign, British, Admirable

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V. S. Naipaul

Father, Read, Becoming

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
Vanessa Hudgens

Two, After, Big

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
Salma Hayek

Time, Hollywood, Exist

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Control, Trying, Level

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
Barbara Deming

Life, Real, Find

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
David Walliams

Book, Everything, Child

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
A. N. Wilson

Success, Whole, Story

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
Natalie Portman

Strong, Exist, Toward

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
Jim Davis

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.
Jason Reitman

Movies, Hate, Laugh

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
Marion Cotillard

Beautiful, Tell, Actress

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
Bob Woodward

Until, Seriously, Quite

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
A. C. Benson

Best, Reality, Times

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
Ben Okri

Else, Another, Keep

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Michael Shermer

True, Motivation, Whether

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Change, Play, Motorcycle

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
Harlan Coben

Life, Family, Book

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
Harlan Coben

Writing, Fire, Big

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
Harlan Coben

Love, Sports, Care

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
Harlan Coben

Love, Night, Living

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.
Steven Seagal

Work, Give, Around

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.
Fred Durst

Movies, Wanted, Tell

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Walter Bagehot

Best, Reality, Times

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

Religion, Human, Try

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