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Roberta Williams A good story never dies.
Neil LaBute Everyone has a story.
John Garfield Must I tell the story of...
Anne McCaffrey A good story is a good...
Martha Reeves Good and bad - this is the...
Alfred de Vigny On the day when man told...
Kristin Hunter Everyone of us is a wonder...
Andy Garcia I wish we didn't have to...
Charles Dickens A boy's story is the best...
Fran Lebowitz Your life story would not make...
Catherine Deneuve The story is more important to...
Joseph Epstein I think the story is my...
Robert Stone It's all about letting the...
Jimmy Fallon I didn't act like I was...
Robert Frost And were an epitaph to be...
Kurt Cobain I really haven't had that...
Bela Lugosi I'll take any story if it's...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Objects in pictures should so...
Naguib Mahfouz Events at home, at work, in...
Harold Ramis There's a personal story of my...
Christine Keeler No one else knows the whole...
Barry White I try to tell a story...
Neil LaBute I wanted to tell a story...
Mike Myers And I loved the whole idea...
Gena Rowlands I always do make a back...
Mary Wortley Montagu Life is too short for a...
Judi Dench I love being part of a...
Mary McCarthy We are the hero of our...
Jean M. Auel I started writing to please...
Jackie Collins I have written 20 books, and...
John Goodman That was all Rose, and Rose...
Robert Patterson Here, we tell the story: why...
Michael Pollan At home I serve the kind...
Jhumpa Lahiri I would not send a first...
Orson Welles If you want a happy ending...
Sergio Aragones The Western, when I do one...
Kurt Loder Well, a lead is the most...
Bille August She is also brought to a...
Lisa Bonet Everyone has their story. Everyone...
Rex Stout Everything in a story should...
Kate Capshaw The love story for me was...
Rob Walton If you like a story that's...
Tobias Wolff Everything has to be pulling...
Tracey Emin With any story I write, I...
Kurtwood Smith If I had not gotten along...
Vincente Minnelli It's always the story that...
Joan D. Vinge I was thinking about what I...
Bill Sienkiewicz Do the story in the way...
Walter Hill It's really about, oh come on...
Vincente Minnelli I use colors to bring fine...
Meg Cabot Write the kind of story you...
Renny Harlin What I learned most was how...
Edith Wharton I had the story, bit by...
Harvey Keitel He brought imagination to the...
Jimi Hendrix The story of life is quicker...
Dorothy Fields If you don't have a story...
George Barr McCutcheon In course of time my first...
Willy Ley The study of an idea is...
Mary-Kate Olsen If they're going to write a...
Maximilian Schell And it's interesting, but I'm...
Richard Linklater Whatever story you want to...
Desmond Dekker I don't write about the same...
Ruben Blades I didn't do drugs, I never...
Oliver North I don't think there is another...
Suzy Bogguss One of the things that I...
Ruth Rendell While most of the things...
Paula Danziger I think my books talk about...
Joel Coen Maybe our telling of the story...
Casey Stengel Finding good players is easy...
Jean M. Auel From the beginning, when I...
Martina Hingis Sometimes I wouldn't give an...
Bruce Springsteen Your success story is a bigger...
Michael Jackson It's a complete lie, why do...
Andrew Greeley Practically speaking, your religion is...
Andrew McCarthy I thought I understood the...
Bubba Sparxxx I wanted to tell my story...
Robert Redford What I would do is when...
C. S. Lewis Miracles are a retelling in...
Herbert Samuel An autobiography is the story...
Black Elk My friend, I am going to...
George Eliot No story is the same to...
Herbert Samual An autobiography is the story...
Margaret J. Wheatley Whatever life we have experienced...
Young Buck It was like an honor thing...
Doris Lilly To make a long story short...
Dougray Scott People go to see a film...
Piper Perabo I had just done what she...
Tony Wilson I'm a minor player in my...
Kurt Russell I've never looked at my career...
Chester Brown You kind of hope that the...
Austin Peck As an actor, that's the best...
Flannery O'Connor I find that most people know...
Walter Bagehot All the best stories in the...
Jhumpa Lahiri When I sit down to write...
Chad Lowe So ultimately I am looking for...
Dario Argento I like to watch many things...
Beau Bridges My favorite roles usually have...
Harry Dean Stanton You want people to feel...
Jane Austen Men have had every advantage...
James Daly The story of the Internet is...
Conrad Hall I want to tell a story...
Dorothy Salisbury Davis History's like a story in a...
Joyce Maynard The silence was part of the...
Craig McCracken It really just gives you a...
Crystal Chappell They've never written a love...
Abraham Maslow The story of the human race...
Jeffrey Jones My job is to help the...
Chuck Klosterman A lot of people have this...
A. C. Benson All the best stories are but...
Sarah Zettel If I get blocked, it is...
Slick Rick It draws you in and creates...
Jean M. Auel From the beginning, the series...
John Ruskin Better the rudest work that...
John Irving And I don't want to begin...
Friedrich Durrenmatt A story has been thought...
Ed Bradley I had never been out covering...
Steve Buscemi I'm terrible at story and...
Steve Buscemi Anything you write, even if...
Stephen King No, it's not a very good...
Elsa Lanchester There is no such thing as...
Lord Chesterfield Patience is the most necessary...
Lynn Abbey For me, writing a short story...
Friedrich Durrenmatt A story is not finished, until...
Matt Drudge There's nothing more exciting than...
Horace If a man's fortune does not...
Nora Roberts One of my greatest pleasures...
Robert Wise You can't tell any kind of...
Christiane Amanpour And one thing that I always...
Michael O'Donoghue They just have a feel about...
William Shatner The basic quality that any...
Steven Spielberg People have forgotten how to...
Don Bluth With movies, you are always in...
Elena Anaya Always, your work is the same...
Rod Steiger I didn't ever think of it...
Zane Grey The Indian story has never...
Jhumpa Lahiri For that story, I took as...
Jean-Luc Godard A story should have a...
E. M. Forster The king died and then the...
Vincente Minnelli No, I only like whether I...
Wally Schirra I was told having a website...
Frank Luntz So often corporate America, business...
Andrew Wyeth I prefer winter and fall, when...
Diane Sawyer I love the early process of...
Tobias Wolff I believe that the short story...
Margaret Mahy I don't think I prefer writing...
Jules Renard The story I am writing exists...
Walt Disney Animation offers a medium of...
Marguerite Moreau I like working in any medium...
Virginia Woolf The history of men's opposition...
Morgan Freeman Most of the time it's the...
Ike Turner They'll probably start working on...
Jan de Bont I think what makes a good...
Quentin Tarantino I like it when somebody tells...
Peter Shaffer But the first published thing...
Ted Demme I tried to stick to my...
Groucho Marx If you've heard this story...
Justin Guarini I am very conscious of what...
Nigel Kneale You set up a story and...
Chester Brown I Never Liked You. I think...
Deborah Cox From beginning to end it's...
Kevin Spacey But I feel that I have...
Clive Barker Nothing ever begins. There is...
Marisa Tomei I really don't like when...
Rocco DiSpirito I wanted to share my life...
Anderson Cooper If someone knows me and likes...
Bob Woodward I'm not going to name some...
Jessica Cutler In real life, people are...
Deborah Cox The second song is called...
Simon Callow He invented this idea of...
Norton Juster And when I'm writing, I write...
William H. Macy If I like the story and...
Richard Price If I can tell you the...
Edmond de Goncourt Historians tell the story of...
Laura Hillenbrand And at that point, I think...
Morgan Freeman And that if you become a...
Thomas B. Macaulay Many politicians are in the...
Joel Coen The architecture of a story...
Jack Vance The story was such that I...
Rachel Griffiths The filmmaker's got to make it...
Dennis Muren Because you're telling a story...
Len Wein People who were more concerned...
Leslie Banks The story grew, got way bigger...
Paul Ricoeur The narrative constructs the identity...
Rod Steiger Well, one of the problems of...
Mary Hart Many have been with the show...
Chuck Klosterman I was fortunate that I was...
Harvey Keitel Well, we are not doing that...
Bob Woodward The Washington Times wrote a...
Josh Schwartz We don't hold anything back...
Joe Sacco I think any journalist who...
Caroline B. Cooney If you write a story based...
Robert Morgan When you have an idea for...
Moon Unit Zappa My mother tells this story...
Shia LaBeouf And if you're a golfer and...
Tabitha Soren It's not like I just have...
Jessica Lange One of the things I love...
Simone Weil Who were the fools who spread...
Lucinda Williams The man I lived with is...
Arthur Golden What I had to do was...
Leslie Fiedler Critics? How do they happen? I...
Orlando Bloom When everyone around you is...
Mary Catherine Bateson The timing of death, like the...
Golda Meir The public history of modern...
Woody Allen I want to tell you a...
David Allen Also, real-world events can be...
Anne Tyler But what I hope for from...
Neil Jordan No, I just thought of a...
Alfred Hitchcock Dialogue should simply be a...
Eric Brown I write about five thousand...
Corin Nemec It's all about creating a back...
Quentin Tarantino Novelists have always had complete...
Aaron Stanford Of course, I'm not allowed to...
Billy Wagner I would never have thought in...
Michael Ondaatje I don't have a plan for...
Herbert Bayard Swope Don't forget that the only two...
Margaret Mahy There are certainly times when...
Brad Paisley I don't stare at a sheet...
Len Wein If a story isn't working, I'm...
Joyce Maynard I believe every one of us...
Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations...
Michael Ondaatje I tend not to know what...
Slick Rick That song is a story that...
Jhumpa Lahiri For years, I sort of would...
Will Estes I had a director who told...
Ann Beattie While I would agree that I...
Kelly Jones Like all bands, the first two...
Margaret Thatcher Of course it's the same old...
Donna Tartt The Little Friend is a long...
John Berger When we read a story, we...
John McGahern I think there's a great...
Howard Nemerov The nice thing about the Bible...
Colleen Atwood If you want someone to feel...
Theodore Sturgeon I sent The World Well Lost...
Sharon Olds The decision for me was...
John C. Reilly Oh, absolutely, it felt more...
Octavia Butler What I'm working on now - I'm...
John Hench I suppose that I was a...
Maya Angelou There is no greater agony than...
James M. Barrie The life of every man is...
Reba McEntire But I like to listen to...
Marilyn Hacker I've been an inveterate reader...
Chris Ware I think it has most to...
David Selby One of the reasons I think...
Margaret Mahy The novels take longer to...
Guy Burgess The mass media in the days...
Keren Ann So usually even if you like...
Kevin J. Anderson Telling your story out loud is...
Dennis Muren Steven and I have worked...
Elie Wiesel I decided to devote my life...
Jeffrey Jones I think the same way about...
Atom Egoyan I have always felt that this...
Jeanne Moreau Success is like a liberation...
Dean Koontz In my books, I never portray...
Chester Brown With each of those projects I...
John Foster And, of course, supernatural elements...
Andrew Lloyd Webber I think the thing's that...
Jeremy Northam I don't have the energy or...
Hans Christian Andersen My life is a lovely story...
John Irving I've always been a fan of...
Harvey Milk All over the country, they're...
Liam Neeson Well, I think they're all...
Christine Keeler If I don't tell it all...
George Stephen The benefit of this kind of...
Ryan White The desire to move into a...
Brandi Chastain Number one, it was a chance...
Renee Fleming I don't want to be somebody...
Andrew C. Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so...
Andrew Lloyd Webber I'm going to take the kids...
Morris Chestnut Producing is easier, I can...
Keanu Reeves The truth is often terrifying...
David Talbot I think we've broken story...
Sarah Zettel I describe my plots as follows...
Helen Rowland Life begins at 40 - but so...
Ben E. King The movie is actually from a...
John Mellencamp In so many musicals today, the...
Stanley Crouch I also wanted to do something...
Stephen Sommers The best scary movies have...
Jennifer Beals The love scenes that worked...
Denis Johnson I was probably 35 when I...
Dan Glickman The success of the movie...
Dick Wolf The story drove the book. That...
Tucker Carlson As a print journalist, you can...
David Kay But the most important thing...
George Cukor Unless the story line carries...
Andrew McCarthy I was fascinated that everybody...
Miguel de Icaza So if we're going to build...
Fred Rogers I like to compare the holiday...
Sidney Sheldon I worked in Hollywood as a...
Cat Stevens I am confident that, in the...
Jean M. Auel I had an idea for a...
Grete Waitz I tried to keep it secret...
Tobias Wolff It's probably why I'm a short...
Luke Wilson Especially with a comedy, you've...
Judy Collins My book Trust Your Heart...
Sergio Aragones Anyone can write a story based...
Sarah Sutton I don't know if you've ever...
Peter Farrelly There are a lot of laughs...
Val Guest Well, The Day the Earth Caught...
Sanjay Kumar Some story appears in some...
Lukas Haas In choosing any role, I ask...
Anthony Holden Among other things they picked...
Jane Taylor Who ran to help me when...
Rudy Rucker Selling a book or story has...
Steven Spielberg Naturally, it is a terrible...
William Devane And I have to credit David...
Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park...
Aishwarya Rai I have a great story to...
Carlisle Floyd It's necessary to track characters...
Christopher Darden In fact, some reviewers have...
Jason Biggs But because it was able to...
David Lloyd It's absolutely of no importance...
Blair Underwood I won't go into detail but...
William Makepeace Thackeray If a secret history of books...
Manuel Puig I can work in films as...
Kenny Loggins When we were first offered a...
Dennis Muren Everyone is trying to do...
Christian Slater It's almost like these games...
Sarah Michelle Gellar Well, that's the old story I...
Kenny Loggins We busted a lot of family...
Harvey Keitel It's a very, very fascinating...
Tom Selleck Having had that experience... I...
George Crook All the tribes tell the same...
Harvey Fierstein But I'm not adverse to the...
Connie Chung Just about any story we think...
Jim Lehrer People can get their news any...
John Sayles I think I got spoiled and...
Thomas Perry But at the same time, the...
Mary MacLane The only joy I had was...
Lenny Kravitz The story that I wanna tell...
Sophie Marceau I just heard a very funny...
Johnny Kidd It was suggested that I take...
Andreas Katsulas I don't know how it would...
Galen Rowell I remember when an editor at...
Alfred Rosenberg Racial history is therefore natural...
Andrew C. Bradley Job was the greatest of all...
George J. Mitchell So I developed very early a...
Vincent Bugliosi It was OK for the media...
Stephen Gardiner The Industrial Revolution was another...
Paul Kane It was relatively easy to...
Ang Lee My first instinct was to cast...
Amy Tan Writing is an extreme privilege...
Ann Beattie I think almost always that...
Chester Brown There I was limited to what...
Don Bluth As you follow the escapades or...
Don Bluth I think the work that they...
Blair Underwood My Soul to Keep is the...
Todd Solondz It is true that the movie...
Colin Hay It's great fun if you get...
Dan Rather I had someone at the Houston...
Craig McCracken The shows are either 11 or...
Guillermo C. Infante I read the Odyssey because it...
Gloria Swanson Writing the story of your own...
Dean Koontz Readers will stay with an...
Elle Macpherson Focusing on the way I look...
Bill Irwin We constantly run lines together...
Diane Kruger It's quite a famous story that...
David Lynch I didn't watch much TV as...
Frank Darabont I think a story should take...
Laurie Anderson I have written a few...
Theodore Sturgeon Once I had all the facts...
Manuel Puig All of my problems are rather...
Sigourney Weaver I've been very fortunate to be...
Jhumpa Lahiri I've seen novels that have...
Ed Wood Why if I had half a...
David Simon What writer wants to make...
Christopher Meloni You can watch any episode you...
Ronny Cox I found out a long time...
Mary A. Ward So as the years draw on...
John Tesh If you want to get an...
Stephen Sondheim I firmly believe lyrics have...
Uwe Boll Heart of America is a movie...
Gary Coleman George W. Bush bought the...
Tabitha Soren If the breaking news event has...
Lawrence Kasdan That was certainly true the...
John Updike The inner spaces that a good...
Alan Alda It's not an epitaph. I felt...
Evan Hunter I never take ideas from the...
Maria Bartiromo News is important information that...
Randy West Because many of us have been...
Erich von Stroheim It is not because I do...
Bob Woodward It would seem that the...
Donald E. Westlake I start with the story, almost...
Len Wein It's all about who's where on...
Thomas Menino And for the city's birthday...
Jeffery Deaver When I find myself frozen...
Kit Bond Remember, we know the end of...
Neil Young This thing called Patriot Act...
Chris Chocola The Iraqi Free Press, which...
John McGahern I think it's linked to the...
John Sayles There were not fifteen people...
Jhumpa Lahiri This story is based on a...
Neil Sheehan World War II had been such...
Donald Trump Anyone who thinks my story is...
Oliver Stone I'd like to do a story...
Owen Hart It's kind of beating a dead...
John Sayles Not that I've always loved the...
Alan Dean Foster How much research I have to...
Aaliyah It's really a sad story, and...
Rachel Griffiths I'm pretty ruthless about that...
Peter Krause I think that every show on...
John Linder While tributes to Americans who...
Maximilian Schell And in reality, I don't think...
Christopher Atkins Brooke might tell a different...
Curt Weldon We're going to break a story...
Brian De Palma I've dropped myself into straightforward...
Patti Smith I have a daughter who's 11...
Beverly Cleary I don't necessarily start with...
Vincente Minnelli If anybody reads a story in...
Neil Jordan My conception of it was that...
Geraldo Rivera With years of experience doing...
Tom T. Hall I never fixed a story. I...
Ani DiFranco Love is a piano dropped from...
Billy Koch With a fresh start, I hope...
John Badham In our story logic which we're...
Bill Owens Our American story, for generations...
Frank Carlucci I think the real target of...
Gerard Butler I was amazed and upset by...
John Carmack Story in a game is like...
Irvine Welsh I grew up in a place...
James Ellroy I put on such a good...
Joyce Maynard I believed my story would be...
Leslie Easterbrook I wish I had a funny...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt To me, a sex scene in...
Tom Hanks What we're doing with Band of...
Andrew Lloyd Webber We felt we had to know...
Guillermo C. Infante Watching a movie from beginning...
Elvis Presley I hope I didn't bore you...
Helen Hayes The truth is that there is...
Isaac Bashevis Singer I am thankful, of course, for...
Lakhdar Brahimi There is a story which is...
Tom Hanks Prior to Saving Private Ryan I...
Terry Brooks Growing up, I didn't have a...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Two years ago I hadn't even...
Merle Haggard There's a rumor that there may...
Swoosie Kurtz I am heartbroken that this...
Sam Mendes I deliberately, in a way, went...
Scott Speedman I'd like to do the young...
Keith Miller The whole Bible is the story...
Craig McCracken Yes, it's a prequel. It tells...
Jhumpa Lahiri The narrator is not anybody in...
Mary McCarthy We all live in suspense from...
Philip Kaufman It just seemed to me to...
Aaron Spelling I'll tell you what I miss...
Chris Van Allsburg At first, I see pictures of...
Ouida A cruel story runs on wheels...
Mike Johanns Science is the international language...
Griffin Dunne And I like being able to...
Robert Creeley It's the classic story form...
Penelope Lively Conventional forms of narrative allow...
Connie Chung We're going to develop - what...
Rutger Hauer I hate acting when I see...
Margaret Haddix The deadlines are much, much...
Andre Gide What would there be in a...
Joyce Maynard I wonder what it is that...
Marianne Williamson Our past is a story existing...
Howard Fineman I know that from the days...
Fred Saberhagen Actually ideas are everywhere. It's...
Paul Kane The most terrifying thing I...
James Payn As a rule, anyone who can...
Rahm Emanuel Rather than doing the kind of...
Donald Kagan History had its own way of...
Mark Rylance Our job is to make manifest...
Jaime Hernandez It's rare that I actually have...
Alice Hoffman I never plot out my novels...
George Smathers But to make a long story...
Ted Allen Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...
Mel Gibson Well, if you look at the...
Fred Frith And so many of the kinds...
David Guterson Don Quixote is one that comes...
Will Estes But, on another level it's...
Spencer Bachus By interviewing at least one...
Iris Chang The whole story of the comfort...
Mary McCarthy We all live in suspense, from...
Charlie Sheen There was a reason my first...
Cab Calloway 90%, 100% are going there to...
Todd McFarlane It works in the comic book...
Charlize Theron If they ever do my life...
Pete Townshend What theatre started to look...
Michael Berryman It is gorgeously shot, and...
Julie Taymor We have often been attracted...
Mary Stuart Masterson The fact that he didn't get...
Ang Lee Sometimes films ignore other points...
Jennifer Connelly It was, when I read it...
Anne Rice Re-telling the Christian story...
Anita Desai I try to trace the connection...
Chester Brown The whole schizophrenia angle interested...
Jerry Costello With faith and courage, generations...
Joyce Maynard At Home in the World is...
A. E. van Vogt You have to remember that I...
Maynard J. Keenan If you take different mythologies...
Judith Krantz Surely the whole point of...
Jack Vance So I'll write it, and then...
Pedro Calderon de la Barca What is life? A madness. What...
Jim Walton Throughout the lead-up to the...
Viggo Mortensen I'm just looking as always for...
Anne McCaffrey The thing is, emotion - if...
Sasha Alexander I really love the process...
Gloria Swanson My greatest debt will always...
Jeffery Deaver To answer that I have to...
Dick Wolf Advertising is the art of the...
Jim McKay But what I did think would...


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