"And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas..."
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"I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me."
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"There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree."
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"and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you"
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"'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!"
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"'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up."
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"I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling."
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"It's a love story, baby, just say, Yes."
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"My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories."
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"'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes."
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"You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it."
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"To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story."
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"Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories."
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"I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know."
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"Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant."
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"People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century."
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"You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story."
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"Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next."
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"Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them."
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"The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last."
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