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If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.