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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story. -- Yishan Wong
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story. -- Gail Carson Levine
If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name. -- Kendrick Lamar
The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy. -- Magic Johnson
But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? -- Jimmy Connors
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like. -- Scarlett Pomers
The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising. -- Diane von Furstenberg
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know. -- Anton Corbijn
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater. -- Colin Trevorrow
Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story. -- John C. Reilly
One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet. -- John Gallagher, Jr.
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make. -- Christian Slater
The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. -- Mark Zuckerberg
The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001. -- John Podhoretz
I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it? -- Ed McBain
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying. -- James Balog
Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth. -- Eazy-E
My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate. -- Taylor Swift
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. -- Mark Zuckerberg
The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices. -- Jamie Dimon
It's cool to tell a real story. -- Miley Cyrus
Every real story is a never ending story. -- Michael Ende
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. -- James Dashner
Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real. -- Heather Bouwman
In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon. -- William Kittredge
Nobody's story is real unless we share it with someone who matters. -- Jeffrey Deitz
Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story. -- Shannon L. Alder
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. -- Laurence Overmire
Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real? -- Jethro Tull
When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl -- Louis Walsh
A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think. -- Marjane Satrapi
The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest -- Stewart Udall
The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it. -- Vanna Bonta
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story. -- Frank Herbert
It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct. -- Nancy Thayer
The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. -- Richard Matheson
To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. -- Luiz Bolognesi
Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it. -- Markus Zusak
While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story. -- Gabourey Sidibe
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. -- Katherine Center
A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control. -- Mary Downing Hahn
The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting. -- Aeriel Miranda
The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory? -- Eli Of Kittim
This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end. -- Richard Glover
Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. -- Shannon Hale
I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story. -- Antonio Banderas
Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person. -- Michael Hyatt
It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters. -- Mark Hoppus
There's 3 sides to every story. Time will tell who the real asshole is despite what you were told. -- April Mae Monterrosa
In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living. -- Aleksandar Hemon
People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story. -- Christopher Locke
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. -- Peter Schiff
I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told. -- Jane Yolen
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us. -- James Russell Lowell
I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist. -- Morgan Spurlock
Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight. -- Lynn Flewelling
Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing. -- Bill Johnson
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling. -- Neil Oliver
A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. -- Isaac Babel
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. -- Todd Strasser
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story. -- Andy Andrews
Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content. -- David Simon
And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least. -- Steven Herrick
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When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important. -- Negash Ali
When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story. -- Mireille Enos
I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is. -- William Beckett
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. -- Wentworth Miller
You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it? -- Jodi Picoult
Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers. -- Lori Wilde
The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins. -- George Clooney
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. -- Fay Weldon
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess. -- Tayari Jones
If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing. -- James Nesbitt
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion. -- Michael Morpurgo
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. -- Stanley Schmidt
You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling. -- Jeff Bridges
I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. -- Selma Blair
That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story. -- Aaron Sorkin
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations. -- Vijay Seshadri
The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation... -- Toby Lester
You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea. -- Jack Handey
When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing. -- Michael Madsen
I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story. -- Maynard James Keenan
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow. -- Jessica Cutler
There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It's always heartbreaking. -- Ethan Hawke
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed. -- Richard Helms
Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story. -- Sharlto Copley
I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in. -- John Petrucci
The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind. -- John Darnielle
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea. -- Janet Evanovich
If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath. -- Ford Madox Ford
I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world. -- Nas
In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies. -- Norbert Leo Butz
Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success -- Marlon James
Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside. -- Tahir Shah
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It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real. -- Neil Gaiman
The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. -- Donald Davis
I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life. -- Grant Morrison
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side. -- Haruki Murakami
I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side. -- Columbus Short
What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about. -- Drake
My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too. -- Gretchen Carlson
Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story. -- Sam Pressman

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