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It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were. -- James Franco
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
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are. -- Naomie Harris
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. -- Raymond Queneau
I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable. -- Blake Shelton
They weren't true stories; they were better than that. -- Alice Hoffman
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. -- Raymond Queneau
If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong. -- Jack Kerouac
A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can. -- Eben Alexander
Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story -- Ashleigh Brilliant
If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story. -- Frank Iero
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. -- Ernest Hemingway
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. -- John Eldredge
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected. -- Paul Auster
I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories. -- Nancy Kates
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears. -- Orson Scott Card
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories? -- Virginia Woolf
One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that. -- George Harrison
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way around when the story grows from the body and spirit of humankind. In any case, we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true. -- Linda Hogan
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. -- Joel Coen
People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together. -- Harvey Weinstein
How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed? -- Bob Kane
Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'. -- Stephen Frears
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. -- John Green
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. -- Ray McKinnon
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States. -- Eric Stoltz
My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time! -- Matt Barr
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see? -- David Edwards
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things. -- Ian Hacking
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. -- Taylor Swift
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. -- Uwe Boll
It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant. -- Jennifer Connelly
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story. -- Laura Fraser
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem. -- Robert Osborne
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see? -- David Edwards
I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream. -- Joe Johnston
Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.' -- Graham Moore
If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect. -- Francis Spufford
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story. -- Wendy Davis
Story book endings, fairytales coming true. -- Carrie Underwood
I know that this story is true. -- Dan Rather
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A true love story has no endings. -- M.F. Moonzajer
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True education is a kind of never-ending story . . . -- J. R. R. Tolkien
There is no story that is not true. -- Chinua Achebe
It's not an easy thing to tell a true story. -- Allen Morris Jones
Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. -- John Yau
Believe that story false that ought not to be true. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Listen to my story and everything will come out true -- Bessie Smith
Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true. -- David Caruso
If you tell the same story five times, it's true. -- Larry Speakes
The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true. -- Timothy Keller
The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men. -- Siri Hustvedt
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true. -- Truman Capote
Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it. -- Clint Eastwood
The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. -- Richard Matheson
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story. -- Frances Hardinge
Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever. -- Brad Meltzer
Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story. -- John Pentland Mahaffy
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. -- Katherine Center
Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true. -- John Irving
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. -- Paul Auster
The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting. -- Aeriel Miranda
It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true. -- Jo M
I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]. -- Richard Wright
It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. -- Patrick Ness
All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing. -- Karen Lord
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. -- Jean M. Auel
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If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not -- Mary-Kate Olsen
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true. -- Ben Mezrich
I loved the True Crime Story Fighting the Devil by Jeannie Walker. It is such an interesting book. -- Jeannie Walker
We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true. -- Reince Priebus
An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true. -- Daniel Kahneman
For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation. -- Stan Freberg
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? -- Thomas Hardy
The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. -- Leslie Ludy
A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. -- Jim Harrison
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. -- Jean Little
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. -- Christina Baldwin
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. -- Erwin Knoll
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism. -- Laurent Binet
SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. -- Ambrose Bierce
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. -- John Steinbeck
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all. -- Patricia Finney
When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment. -- Emmylou Harris
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs. -- Des MacHale
A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child. -- Margaret Wise Brown
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true. -- Bill Nighy
True education is a kind of never ending story "? a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story. -- Marco Rubio
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story. -- Ben Dreyfuss
I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious. -- John Lee Hancock
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don't ever ask for the true story. -- Margaret Atwood
I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories. -- Dennis Quaid
If there's no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173) -- Heidi W. Durrow
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. -- Chinua Achebe
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway
It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time. -- Susan Stroman
Weâ??d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial weâ??d survive to talk about. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love. -- Eckhart Tolle
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy. -- Marcia Clark
Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. -- Selena Kitt
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true. -- Robin Day
It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places. -- Michelle Paver
The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see. -- Sarah Dessen
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and thereÂ´s the true, preestablished balance. -- Simone de Beauvoir
We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true. -- Daniel Kahneman
"Money to Burn" is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors. -- Ladyhawke
You know what Marshall needs to do. He needs to stop being sad. When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story. -- Barney Stinson
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
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself. -- Harriet Lerner

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