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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells ... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. — Tyler Perry

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life. — Nick Harkaway

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based. — Mitchell Hurwitz

My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me. — Charles Todd

I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play. — Alden Ehrenreich

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. — Alan Rickman

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. — Christian Keiber

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on. — Iain Banks

We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it. — Diane Nelson

Great souls, Great stories. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible. — Nalo Hopkinson

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country. — Jojo Moyes

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all. — Daniel Kehlmann

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. — Richard Flanagan

The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas. — Paul Auster

MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories. — Michael A. Healy

Great design should tell a story. — Sol Sender

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told. — Chris Wooding

I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell. — Jon Weisman

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure. — Peter Carey

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film. — Michael Giacchino

The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media. — Dave Morris

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories. — Carrie Fisher

Exactly. Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru said. — Haruki Murakami

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. — Polly Adler

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story. — Donald Miller

Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world. — Sharad Devarajan

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. — Alexander Osterwalder

Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again. — Kassie DePaiva

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist. — Hark-Joon Lee

I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad. — Emma Thompson

Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. — Kathleen Kennedy

Great stories strengthen us to be great souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do. — John Legend

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. — Manohla Dargis

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell. — Katey Sagal

For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster. — Michael Boatman

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book. — Sally Kirkland

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film. — Annette Funicello

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. — Judd Apatow

I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out. — Dakota Johnson

I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist. — Carol Berg

That is why most great love stories are tragedies. — Agatha Christie

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great. — Bryan Way

Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. — Olivia Wilde

I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. — Chris Pratt

Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel. — Komla Dumor

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal. — Robin Williams

But we also need stories. Great stories. — John Piper

But love of one kind will never duplicate itself. Love has its variety...which possibly makes it as a great as all the songs and stories and poems. — Dan Skinner

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story. — Hank Phillippi Ryan

Other countries have stories of kings who will return at times of great
need. Only in England is it part of the constitution. — Susanna Clarke

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories. — William Kent Krueger

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story — Lee Trevino

I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women. — Edna O'Brien

Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason. — Robert Englund

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in. — Neil Gaiman

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. — Chuck Palahniuk

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories. — James Frey

Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru — Haruki Murakami

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant. — Zoe Saldana

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy

Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful. — Billy Graham

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories. — Mitch Joel

I'm not interested in whether you've sat with the great; I'm interested in whether you've sat with the broken. — Unknown

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out. — Sergio Aragones

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear. — Chuck Palahniuk

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new. — Clint Eastwood

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again. — Kurt Vonnegut

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do. — Charlie Rose

Well, after the nature of any great hero from the stories, he was going to do his best to avoid this particular trial. — Brandon Sanderson

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Adventures make great stories, but the day after really sucks. — Bryan Fields

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name — Claude C. Hopkins

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work. — Geraldine Brooks

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told. — Carew Papritz

I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with. — James Frey

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. — Robert Englund

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. — Peter Gabriel

A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians. — Dan Fogelberg

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. — Donald Miller

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next? — Karen Thompson Walker

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life. — Donald Miller

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better. — Garrison Keillor

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories. — Colin Trevorrow

Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within. — Steve Maraboli

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film. — Peter Hedges

We are our choices. Build yourself a great story. — Jeff Bezos

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians. — Joely Fisher

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them. — Maeve Binchy

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality. — Steve Maraboli