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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, New Beginnings

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

  Glennon Melton

  Wisdom, Good Day, Bad Day

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• What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, People, Stories

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1993). “Fitzgerald: The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Thinking, Political

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• It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

  Ajay Naidu

  Responsibility, Epic, Important

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• Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

  Susan Orlean

  Mean, News Stories, Seductive

  "Miss Popularity" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2011.

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• 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

  Soul, Looks, Stories

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• I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Looks, Stories, Becoming

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• A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.

  Josh Radnor

  Real, Should Have, Heartache

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

  Salman Rushdie

  Voice, Stories, Littles

  "Salman Rushdie: Beyond the tabloids". Interview with Hector Tobar, articles.latimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

  Steven Spielberg

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Challenges, Stories

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• If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

  Hilary Mantel

  Play, Ideas, Stories

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

  Sean Lennon

  Love, Betrayal, Stories

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• And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Mean, Stories

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Taken, Technology, Thinking

  "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

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• There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Play

  Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

  Diane Setterfield

  Broken, Stories, Pieces

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

  Anne Hathaway

  Good Life, Stories, Mellow

  "Anne Hathaway Engaged to Adam Shulman!" by Justin Ravitz, www.usmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

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• For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

  John Hawkes

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Knowing, Consistency, Stories

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.99, Macmillan

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• No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Listening To Others, Should Have

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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• In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

  Ashton Kutcher

  Believe, Character, Ideas

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