Story Quotes
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There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived the lives of all the characters of the songs I've written, that would truly be an extraordinary story.
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When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
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I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
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I do think that every generation has its unique story.
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I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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 always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
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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.
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I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
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A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?
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Any “story” can be told in dozens of different ways. For that very reason, I believe, every time you go back and reexamine an important chapter in your life, you learn something new about it.
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I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.
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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
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A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
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If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
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Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you can.
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I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.
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You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't want to leave anything out, but you want to tell a good story so the people will read it and they're engaged and they don't fall apart with extraneous details.
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I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.
