Story Quotes
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Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.
Akiva Goldsman
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I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.
Nancy Willard
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I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
Charles Dickens
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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
Nicholas Lea
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I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Isak Dinesen
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Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"
Ben Domenech
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The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the burdens that human people themselves alone must carry.
Edgar Pangborn
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There are always two sides to every story. Make sure you listen to both and seek out the truth because you might become a part of the deceitful’s circus and end up being the fool.
Anuj Sachdeva
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You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.
Lauren Graham
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When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.
Alan Alda
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When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
Eboo Patel
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I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
Tony Bennett
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Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do.
Stephen Curry
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You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it not existing. It's like a good book. What makes a good book is hard to say. I don't know. I just look for something that grabs me. I don't have a way of looking for a project, and I don't know many people that do. It's just year to year, and what's going around and what's there.
Harry Treadaway
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A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
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There's only one story, the story of your life.
Helen Keller
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Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.
Brendan Benson
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I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
Josh Segarra
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One of the general morals of this story is that if you have to take some risks, it is often better to do so as quickly as possible.
Avinash Dixit
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When I was doing 'Baahubali 2,' the story was being discussed with many people. The story evolved over 9-10 months in that way.
Rana Daggubati
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No matter which concern, problem or life-issue we may want to work on, risking and beginning to talk about it with a safe person or persons is a way out of the unnecessary burden of remaining silent. And when we tell our story from our hearts, bones and guts, we discover the truth about ourselves. Doing so is healing
Charles L. Whitfield
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Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
Alyson Richman
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The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself.
Akira Toriyama