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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’.

Myself Conclude Best Story
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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.

Big Event Experiences Get
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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.

Moral Story Temporarily Fable
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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Storyteller Love Being Telling
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Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.

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.

True Literature More Than
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everything Look Fairy Story
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A human life is a story told by God.

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.

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.

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.

Because Full How Life
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Basically Good Good Writer Mankind
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Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.
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.

Chapter Exciting Going Just
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Everyone has a story to tell. Don't lose focus.

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.

Audience Changed Different Fundamentally
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
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.

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.

Story Keep Get Set
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
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.

Actor Aspiring Boy Everyone
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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.

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.

Future Story Tell Find ways
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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

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.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

Boring Dreamed Dreams Idea
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