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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
Middlesex (2003) 217 -
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
Aint It Cool News interview -
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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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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If China were to explode, I'd want to be there in a flash. If there's a big story, I want to be there.
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If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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If so, our posture would be as follows: we published the story and said it was true, but now we are going to nominate it for a Pulitzer — now that's serious business.
Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981) -
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
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If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
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If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
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If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
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In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.
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