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“If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.”

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Author:Robert Rodriguez

“I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.”

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Author:David Eddings

“The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.”

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Author:Adam Savage

“I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We're just like, 'What can we go get into this weekend?' Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It's all memories.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

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

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“What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.”

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Author:Jim Bishop

“I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.”

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Author:Kate Morton

“Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.”

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Author:John Sayles

“I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.”

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Author:John Grisham

“I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.”

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Author:Mark Canton

“My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.”

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Author:Beau Bridges

“When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.”

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Author:Sharon Creech

“I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.”

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Author:Marion Cotillard

“I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.”

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Author:Eric Jerome Dickey

“If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.”

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Author:Garret Dillahunt

“I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.”

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Author:Garret Dillahunt

“In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.”

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Author:Garret Dillahunt

“Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.”

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Author:James Dashner

“I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.”

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Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.”

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Author:Michael Cera

“You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.”

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Author:John Lee Hancock

“People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.”

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Author:Bob Iger