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I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer. -- David Rockwell
I have broken a lot of stories. -- Robert Scheer
It's always good to have a story arch. -- Margot Robbie
I have written stories since I was a child. -- Rachel Joyce
Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. -- Gilda Radner
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. -- A. E. van Vogt
If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. -- Evangeline Lilly
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. -- William Shatner
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit. -- Adam McKay
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story. -- Donald Miller
Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion. -- Tom Rachman
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. -- Steven Spielberg
The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year. -- Helmut Lang
We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.' -- Jen Kirkman
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story. -- Ben Horowitz
There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing. -- Story Musgrave
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different. -- Story Musgrave
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. -- Story Musgrave
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things. -- Story Musgrave
I know as a director I hit it out of the park sometimes, and sometimes we haven't, and that's kind of the way art goes. You just have to be willing to take the 'failures' and learn from them, make the best of them. -- Tim Story
When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work. -- Tim Story
I like having my own story remain my story. -- David Benioff
My whole story is just about me having a second chance. -- Two Chainz
To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in. -- Doris Lilly
Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building. -- Jon Jones
Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers. -- Sarah Hall
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story. -- Katherine Mansfield
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that. -- Liya Kebede
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. -- Jonathan Carroll
When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on... -- Jazmine Sullivan
Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with. -- Buck Henry
Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story. -- Jeff Lindsay
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story. -- Roberto Orci
Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people. -- Brit Morin
Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you can. -- Nick Jonas
I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story. -- John Waters
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. -- Twyla Tharp
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was. -- Lenora Crichlow
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. -- Gene Roddenberry
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -- Gene Roddenberry
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories. -- Sarah Kay
Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation. -- Scott Snyder
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web. -- Wally Schirra
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas. -- Gus Van Sant
I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story. -- Jennifer Weiner
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good. -- Julie Taymor
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
If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it. -- Michael Winter

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