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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like." — Gordon W. Allport
In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio,… — John Lahr
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got… — Jack Handey
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It… — Louis C. K.
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. — Oliver Sacks
It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were… — Pat Robertson
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the… — Winston Churchill
When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. — Pema Chodron
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to… — Joshua Slocum
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to… — Priscilla Presley
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name… — Terry Brooks
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. — BrenÃ© Brown
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey
It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to… — Owen Hart
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related… — Swami Vivekananda
NOVEL, n. A short story padded... — Ambrose Bierce
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary… — Laura Hillenbrand
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal… — Mark Twain
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness. — BrenÃ© Brown
If we own the story then we can write the ending. — BrenÃ© Brown
When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one… — Oprah Winfrey
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and… — Vilfredo Pareto
The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero. — Chris Brogan

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