Story Quotes
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Did the rest of the Austrians understand what was happening to the Jews? Did they understand that we were being dispossessed, that we were beginning to go hungry? By way of answer let me tell you a story. Once after the Anschluss, I was stopped by a policeman for jaywalking. He ordered me to pay a stiff fine. "But I am Jewish," I said. That was all he needed to hear to know that I was penniless and could not possibly pay, and he let me go. So you see, when they tell you that they did not realize how the Jews were being despoiled, you must never believe them. They all knew.
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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.
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There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
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It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
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Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.
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One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.
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People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.
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The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
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I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
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The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.
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I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.
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I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
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I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.
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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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Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.
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I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
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The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
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Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
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I can pretty much tell the whole story through my eyes. Some of the best actors that you watch don't have to physically do too much.
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And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.
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There's nothing more important than a good story.
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His life story was the story of Patricia and him, after all, for better or worse, and if she ended his life might go on, but his story would be over. He tripped
