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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

Bedtime Come Get Gets
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Back Dinner Dreams Far
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

Answers Conclusions Every I Think
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Above Amusing Long Never
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Audio Cinema Familiar Future
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Never compare your beginning to someone else’s ending. You will get discouraged. Your stories were not written side by side, neither was there a track and field event when you all were born.

Never Compare Beginning Someone else Side by side
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Actually Connection Good Got
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Being Fact Go Great
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Build a support network with a few other trusted entrepreneurs to share war and success stories with, otherwise, it becomes a very lonely journey.

Network Entrepreneurs Success Build
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

1930s Almost Almost Nothing Early
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Existing Gains Imagine Journey
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Challenging Great Great Stories Jay
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Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Cartoonists Come Dirty Draw
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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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The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

After Always Dark Definitely
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What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

About CGI Computer Happened
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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

Poem Hands Run Stories
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Biased First Generate Get
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
Get Just Stories Tell
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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If a Journalist doesn’t know how to “Kill Stories” , “destroy or finish an opposition”, fabricate or exaggerate the achievements of leaders in Government, he or she becomes an enemy of the media aide.

Journalist Kill Stories Fabricate Government
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…For me, art is not just a talent or career. For me, it is a ministry where you get to showcase your talent to the world, where you have to use your craft to tell stories and the world will see it and appreciate it.

Art Talent Career Ministry
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Ask Earn Job Neighbour
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

About Death Effects Explosions
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The African culture is built on stories

Culture Built On stories
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Been Destruction Examining Fears
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Always Lies Live Stories
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

About Alright Fiction Happened
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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Comic Day Life Mother
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Actually feel Stories Brain
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The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

The tabloids Own stories People's lives
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Learned Next generation Value most
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Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Forty People Histories Options
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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Books Coming Early Ghost
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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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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Least Love Love Stories Stories
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We tell stories for the experience of being alive, how else would we understand the universe, if stories are taken out of it.

Tell stories Being alive Universe
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Stories are the common ground upon which a community is formed. To belong to a tribe is to believe and share the story of the tribe.

Stories Common ground Believe Tribe
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I seek to create visually powerful stories in traditional and digital spaces that are not only different but make a difference.

Create visually Powerful stories Digital space
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I am passionate about the power of stories, well-told, to persuade, provoke and mediate human experiences. Stories sustain cultures and inspire change. Stories impact governance, development, business, commerce, education, technology and innovation.

Passionate Power Stories Provoke
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

Dirty World Language Comic
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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 came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

School Rainy Day One Day Wonder
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When I say that I am nothing but pencil in the hand of the creator, I mean that it is God that is holding me and that I am just a pencil in his hands. He is using me to create all these stories.

Nothing Pencil Creator God
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Stories can change. Stories change. Let nothing rob you of hope, stories change!

Stories Can change Rob you Hope
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