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• The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

  George Saintsbury

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• Simple stories… emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

  Cyril Cusack

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• Press is basically a created story. It’s all just stories.

  Joseph Gordon Levitt

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

  Steven Spielberg

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• I don’t want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

  Steven Moffat

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• On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

  Steven Cojocaru

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• It’s a director’s job to tell a story and he’s very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that’s exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn’t understand but he told a wonderful story.

  Cuba Gooding Jr.

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• One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I’d say is working on the storyboards.

  Craig McCracken

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• The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

  Craig Johnston

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• All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

  Stanley Crouch

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• It’s part of a cycle of stories I’m writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

  Cory Doctorow

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• And I think it’s very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

  Sophie Marceau

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• My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

  Cornelia Funke

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• The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories – what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen – are important.

  Asne Seierstad

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• My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn’t live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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• Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

  Sidney Sheldon

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• I’ll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I’ll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I’ll go home. It’s just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.

  Colin Farrell

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• Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

  Gene Wolfe

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• I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

  Gay Talese

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• These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

  Clifford D. Simak

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