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I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?' Albert Brooks

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I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for. Anthony Shadid

Risks Worth Taking Risks Think Taking Any Dying Stories Story

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves. Arundhati Roy

Me World Dance Sense Nothing Way Teller Only Higher Involves Make Am Than Fiction Stories Who Fundamentally

My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors. Ava DuVernay

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories. Bobby Heenan

You See Area Did Stories Skyscrapers Downtown Two

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix. Clive Barker

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' Colin Powell

Me You Black Somebody Think Progressive Tell Mention Longer Come Talk Any Stop Being Stories Them Shot Many Now

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console. Dalai Lama

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I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real. Daphne Ashbrook

Love You Love Songs Tell Something Songs Feel Make Real Stories

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories. Dierks Bentley

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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. Elie Wiesel

Bible Laws Only Also Stories

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Gilda Radner

Beginning Some Clear End Middle Stories

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. Gretchen Rubin

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Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell. Howie Mandel

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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things. J. Michael Straczynski

You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things. J. Michael Straczynski

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Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. Jane Gardam

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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Jean de la Bruyere

Mind Second-Rate Mark Telling Always Stories

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up. Jeff Kinney

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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion

Live Ourselves Tell Order Stories

As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading. Judy Blume

Me Trouble Reading Books Secrets Finding Adult Had Read Felt Always Were Child Stories Loved Who Even Keeping Honest

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