Steven Spielberg Quotes
		
	
	
		
	
	
	
		I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steven Spielberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patricia Briggs
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gayle Forman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I chase after inspiring stories.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vera Farmiga
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T. J. Thyne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aaron Paul
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Al Jourgensen
			
			
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		So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cameron Crowe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bette Midler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barry Hannah
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Rickman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Rickman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Rickman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donald Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cara Buono
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nicholas Pileggi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift itself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				M. J. Ryan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steven Spielberg