Wes Moore Quotes
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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.
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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.
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My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.
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There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
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A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
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People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
