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Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Story, Press, Created

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
Rachel McAdams

Love, Romantic, Fun

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.
Jeffrey Kluger

Special, Wrong, Hold

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
Dick Wolf

Times, Television, Watch

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
David Walliams

Love, Emotional, Book

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
Joyce Carol Oates

Work, Long, Short

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
Joyce Carol Oates

Love, Time, Tell

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.
Caroline Kennedy

Father, Him, Remember

I chase after inspiring stories.
Vera Farmiga

After, Chase, Inspiring

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
Vera Farmiga

Music, Dance, Film

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
Tina Turner

Mother, Spiritual, Tell

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
Ralph Steadman

God, Loved, Silly

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Orson Scott Card

Live, Tell, Lies

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.
Sloane Crosley

Woman, Cannot, Separated

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.
Michael Sheen

Best, Experience, Sad

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.
Michael Sheen

Big, Books, Daughter

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.
Jordin Sparks

Through, Living, Tell

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.
Joan Didion

Time, Girl, Same

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
Len Wein

Positive, Thought, Sometimes

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
Len Wein

Time, God, Best

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
Rachel Weisz

Major, Narratives

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
Marion Cotillard

Good, Times, Emotion

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
Mitch McConnell

Success, Greatest, Country

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
James Dyson

Success, Age, Hard

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
Jeff Bezos

Love, Lost, Author

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
Joan Collins

Time, Put, Away

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
Mario Batali

Poetry, Book, Writing

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
Mario Batali

Wedding, Single, Reading

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
Brad Pitt

Character, Two, After

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
Guy Pearce

Good, Bad, Struggle

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