Quotes with story

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  • Brian K. Vaughan If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
    Aint It Cool News interview
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Horace 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.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • W. M. Thackeray 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!
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Horace Mann If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bob Simon 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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  • Hillary Clinton If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp 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.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bob Woodward 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    Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Anderson Cooper 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.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray 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.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Samuel Butler 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.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Carolyn Maloney If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bill Ackman 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.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Orson Welles If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney 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.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Groucho Marx If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Caleb Deschanel 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.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Bill James In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bill Keller 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.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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