Story Quotes
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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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Everyone has a story.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: “It’s better than nothing.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
