Story Quotes
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?
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A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.
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Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.
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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.
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Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
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There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.
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The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish
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I'm a big fan of revenge, I think Sweeney Todd it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.
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You did it because you wanted to sell a story.
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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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Everybody has a story to tell.
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I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
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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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The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
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When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
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My friends have made the story of my life.
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A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
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Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
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When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.
