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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.
Abraham Lincoln
Myself
Conclude
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
Ira Glass
Big
Event
Experiences
Get
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Yann Martel
Movies
Tend
Aesthetic
Story
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Yann Martel
Moral
Story
Temporarily
Fable
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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
Henry Rollins
Storyteller
Love
Being
Telling
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Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.
Steve Jobs
Package
Theater
Create
Story
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True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.
Orhan Pamuk
True
Literature
More
Than
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
Pat Conroy
End
Good
Good Meal
Meal
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale
Always
Children
Express
Invariably
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
Zoe Saldana
Actor
Bunch
Despise
Entails
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When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?
Clint Eastwood
Ask
Like
See
Something
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Black
Little
Live
Makes
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
Umberto Eco
About
Also
Always
Clear
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
Umberto Eco
Certain
Children
Decided
Had
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You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
Stephen King
Clicks
Else
Going
Happen
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie
Become
Books
Clearly
Concerned
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I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
Kevin Hart
Love
Being
Stage
Able
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
Aaron Sorkin
Different
Manner
Might
Much
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
Aaron Sorkin
Anything
Goes
Inside
Limited
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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain
Really
Haven't
Had
Exciting
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.
Isabel Allende
Convey
Story
Particular
Idea
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
Jackie Collins
Baby
Books
Both
Each
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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.
Haruki Murakami
Because
Call
Express
Fiction
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder
Anything
Come
Ever
Me
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I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by.
Ilhan Omar
Loved
Heard
Story
Inspiration
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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
Ira Glass
Easiest
Effective
Most
Somebody
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
Vin Scully
About
Batting
Get
Give
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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.
Ira Glass
Big
Grade
Happen
Happens
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
Chinua Achebe
Story
Far
Begin
Surface
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'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.
Frank Miller
Book
Books
Call
Come
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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
H.C. Andersen
Everything
Look
Fairy
Story
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A human life is a story told by God.
H.C. Andersen
Human
Life
Story
God
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The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
Malcolm Cowley
Germ
Story
New
Simple
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh
Celtic
Clubs
Even
Everybody
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Because
Full
How
Life
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Basically
Good
Good Writer
Mankind
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Nick Hornby
Either
Gets
How
Internal
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You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
Dan Millman
Chapter
Exciting
Going
Just
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Everyone has a story to tell. Don't lose focus.
Iyabo Ojo
Everyone
Story
Tell
Focus
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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
J.J. Abrams
Audience
Changed
Different
Fundamentally
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Norman Mailer
Even
Facts
Forever
Lost
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Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.
Patton Oswalt
Adolescence
Based
Because
Bill
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We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
Daniel Kahneman
Story
Keep
Get
Set
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Nora Roberts
Else
Falling
Greatest
Pleasures
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I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that, at 23, if you're not in the Backstreet Boys, then you're never gonna make it.
Paul Hogan
Actor
Aspiring
Boy
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.
Jack Kirby
Wrote
Story
What
Really
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I see a boundless future for any proaducer — male or female. If you have a story to tell, go ahead and find ways to tell it.
Tope Oshin
Future
Story
Tell
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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
Keith Richards
Different
Different Way
Everybody
Got
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
Reba McEntire
Demos
Finished
FinishedProduct
Going
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine
Boring
Dreamed
Dreams
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