"They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise."
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"Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart."
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"Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it."
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"Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart."
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"Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story."
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"Tell your story with your whole heart."
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"In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example."
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"Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you."
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"Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws."
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"Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden."
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"The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap."
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"Don't let them tell us stories."
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"My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph."
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"When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them."
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"It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know."
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"I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say."
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"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story."
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"I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me."
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"Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter."
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"I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me."
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