"Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero."
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"I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one."
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"Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own."
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"We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time."
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"The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know."
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"People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell."
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"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."
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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
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"If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story."
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"People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed."
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"Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense."
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"I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story."
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"It's important for us to tell our stories."
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"My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle ."
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"(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can."
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"How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all."
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"Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind."
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"There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists."
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"Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism."
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"Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy."
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