Story Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.
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True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
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Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it.
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With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
