"I wish we didn't have to tell this story."
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"I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?"
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"No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child."
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"I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me."
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"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
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"I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it."
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
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"I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker."
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"Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. What happens somewhere affects things everywhere, so I have to be careful and whatever stories I work on, I want them to have redeeming moral values."
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"The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation."
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"Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story"
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"No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words."
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"Let's finish with Guccifer. My communication with him is now entirely public. It is benign.Secondarily, the timing of my communication is after, not before, I write a story for Breitbart regarding the hacking. And I never defend him from not being a Russian agent in that piece."
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"At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian."
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"No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you."
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"Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night."
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"I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story."
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"When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up."
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"If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it."
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"Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create."
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