Story Quotes
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It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it, than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.
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Now, that's the story from this week, and that's what I think we should focus on.
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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
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For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.
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I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.
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Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.
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That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.
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If you tell the same story five times, it's true.
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
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Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.
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If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
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If someone is critiquing the actual technique involved, that’s a whole other story. Mainly a lot of music critics have a tendency to just say they don’t like it.
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It doesn't mean that you endorse it. It doesn't mean you're being insensitive. It means you're a journalist and you're telling the story.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.
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I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do something different to what I had done before.
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If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
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A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why there is still a Poland. . . . One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.
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There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.
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Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
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I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.
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We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."
