"Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized."
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"When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me."
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"With each of those projects I wasnt thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasnt the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time."
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"We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story."
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"Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories."
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"We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story."
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"History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground."
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"Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories."
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"Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are."
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"People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story."
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"If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell."
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"Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart."
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"If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God."
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"No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?"
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"You're more than a story."
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"But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits."
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"Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him."
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"Every story has its demands."
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"[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that."
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"I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film."
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