Story Quotes
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It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
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Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
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Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.
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People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
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Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
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We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.
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Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.
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When I finished telling that story, the master of ceremonies said Howard Green enjoyed the story, but you named the wrong commissioner.
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I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.
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My truth is I wasn’t ready to tell my story. For me it was always protecting the show.
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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 simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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This story does not have a happy ending; they almost never do. The only happy stories you will ever hear are told by men—they spin their lies, trying to convince themselves that they cause no devastation, and that the hearts they break were never worth much to begin with.
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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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I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
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In the story of the Good Samaritan, everybody knows the robber is bad--but doesn't Jesus also imply an indictment on the priest and Levite? . . . The priest and Levite are over here. They are 'righteous' in a superficial way. They don't rob anybody. They're not like that lousy criminal who is over here, on the bad end of the line. Do you see it? That's the line we modern Christians try to live on the right end of it . . . The Samaritan traveler lives on a higher level, altogether. The issue isn't who is wrong or righteous; that's obvious. The issue is who is truly good.
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You remember what I said, way way way back at the start of Hiccup’s adventures, how this would be the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way? Now you can begin to see exactly how hard the way has been.
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Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old model from Los Angeles. Like every other model in L.A., She's dating an older retired guy. What's going on?
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At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same.
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In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.
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He looked so sorry and miserable as he pushed me out the door. It stung. It always stings when there's this whole story going on and you're really just a B-plot walk-on who only got a look at three pages of the script.
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For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.
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I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the process of creating a story - but you can really learn through exposure to different writing, to different art forms, to different modes of storytelling, and with mentors who are able to get you to step outside your comfort zone.
