"People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen."
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"If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong."
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"We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories."
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"Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born."
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"I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons"
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"If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories"
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"Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is."
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"When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors."
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"If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive."
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"The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street."
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"Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story."
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"I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie."
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"Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen."
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"One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story."
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"My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story."
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"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."
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"I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more."
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"The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me."
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"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."
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"To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well."
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