Story Quotes
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
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I never get the girl - I always die. That is the catch with playing bad. I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.
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I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.
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Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.
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We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?
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But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.
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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.
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I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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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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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.
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No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.
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You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.
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When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
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My favorite thing, maybe even more than going in and writing for myself because I've become bitter and jaded, is writing with an artist that has a perspective and that has a story to tell. It’s a really, really cool feeling and experience.
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If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
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A story can only be contained in a book.
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Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
