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“I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.”

Stories Bigs Certain Stuff Fire Impossible Building Let Me Get Insurance

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.”

Stories Dream Impossible Special

Author:Marco Rubio

“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”

Writing Stories Found Sides Impossible Deeper Impression

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.”

World Said Helping Stories Impossible Increase Absurd Instance Currency Scandal Pious Malicious Austin Improbability

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

“Travel is the realm of the impossible adventures, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. It entitles you to meet interesting people, whom you would never meet, even if you laid traps or advertised for them. Not only do you met them, but you also unmeet them, all in the space of, it often seems, a mere compacted evening. As there is so little time, bodies in motion drop their guard and immediately get on with their stories. Then the proverbial ships part, each to its destination, never again to brush each other's wake.”

“I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.”

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.”

People Trying Stories America Spirit Simple Impossible Generations Ready Creeds Odds Unlikely Not Ready Yes We Can Impossible Odds

Book:Change We Can Believe In

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"”

“Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.”

Giving Stories Impossible Tasks Solve Good Story

Author:Carl Reiner

“A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.”

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times.”