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For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.
My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.
Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.
Everybody has their good days and their bad days, there's always two sides to a story.
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
It's very important to lead your own story: to not be acting as much as you are living.
Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story.
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
I always tell my story because I want others who have felt broken to know they can make it.
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.
I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human.
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.
I remember seeing a story on Olympic swimmer, Ryan Lochte doing strongman workouts. That was awesome.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.