Story Quotes
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.
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No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.
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This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.
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I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
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Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same story every night from beginning to end.
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
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You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn’t go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.
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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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My greatest success story has been my family.
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Everybody has a story to tell.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
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There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.
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I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,' and whatnot.
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There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.
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One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.
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Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.
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Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.
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I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life.
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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.
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Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
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We're playing upside-down baseball. But that's been our story. There's always somebody doing something he's not accustomed to doing.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
