"I've always really loved stories told from the point of view of children."
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"Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."
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"Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story."
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"Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line."
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"What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me."
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"Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves."
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"I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace."
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"I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories."
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"I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay."
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"My friends have made the story of my life."
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"It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!"
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"What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?"
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"And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland"
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"The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction."
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"Sad stories make good books"
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"The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures."
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"The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter."
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"Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed."
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