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“The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.”

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Author:Cornelia Funke

“I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.”

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Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.”

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Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

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Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino