Story Quotes
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Forgiveness, she was thinking, was in some terrible, overeager way, a lack of curiosity. It was a big, powerful hose that washed everything away. She had, in effect, turned the hose on herself. "Of course I forgive you." As eager to reconcile as she has been in the schoolyard and in her first marriage too. Only to think that now she should not have been so hasty. Forgiveness was the premature end to the story. She had skipped to the last page instead of reading the book through.
Elizabeth Hay
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Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.
Bo Lozoff
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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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Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
Nicolas Cage
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.
Donald Miller
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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.
Harrison Ford
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Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
Bill Willingham
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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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I personally love shows that change the lives of people that go through the show. And even if you don't like to cook, I think you should watch just for the story of these people who are going through different stages of their lives through the show. The way they evolve and grow is amazing.
Ana Claudia Talancon
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I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.
Nicholas G. Carr
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Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.
Avi Lewis
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Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
Brian Swimme
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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
Charlize Theron
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A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
Donald Miller
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen
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Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how they want to present their music. From there I usually try to tell a story visually that complements the music, that lets the music be the hero element of the project. I just try to do something that feels sincere and creative and a little bit home-brewed so it doesn't feel too plastic or phony.
Adria Petty
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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.
Charles Dickens
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Everybody has a story to tell.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers
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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
Charlie Jane Anders
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All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.
Karen Lord
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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.
Hale Appleman
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One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw