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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. — Steve Buscemi
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of… — Alan Alda
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half… — Candace Bushnell
In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the… — Nolan Bushnell
The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the… — Jason Aldean
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. — Octavia Butler
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's… — Octavia Butler
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends. — A. S. Byatt
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and… — A. S. Byatt
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not… — Meg Cabot
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar
Every great story seems to begin with a snake. — Nicolas Cage
The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes. — Nicolas Cage
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked… — Nicolas Cage
Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris… — Herman Cain
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain… — Michael Caine
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. — Italo Calvino
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the… — David Cameron
Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In… — James Cameron
I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in… — Kirk Cameron
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them… — Jane Campion
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters. — Jane Campion
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love… — Jane Campion
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as… — John le Carre
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels… — John le Carre

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