Story Quotes
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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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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The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
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'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.
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Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in service of natural lighting.
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I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.
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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
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There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
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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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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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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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Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.
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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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Let Your Actions Be Your Story.
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You don't have to live anybody else's story.
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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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The times we worked harder to make the day stand out. Our story demanded that we change and so we did.
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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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If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
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I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
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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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When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.
