"Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling."
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"A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it."
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"If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do."
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"Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story"
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"If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories."
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"The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story."
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"If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last."
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"If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all."
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"To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it."
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"We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts."
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"Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do."
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"Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies."
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"Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story."
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"We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream."
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"All my jewelry has stories."
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"When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal."
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"We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves."
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"Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story."
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"The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."
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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
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