Story Quotes
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That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.
Eddie George -
It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.
Brian Topp
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Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
Susan Wiggs -
If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.
William Campbell Gault -
I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.
Nick D'Aloisio -
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
Michael Graves -
If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
Michael Eklund -
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?
Audrey Hepburn
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My friends have made the story of my life.
Helen Keller -
Most people hear me do all these freestyles and never hear me tell a story.
Hakeem Seriki -
But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.
Winifred Holtby -
Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you can.
Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers -
There's the way modern music is produced, which is, 'Here's a piece of music, and I'm the producer, so pay me and make sure my credit is right and get me my splits.' But I'm trying to go backward. Now, it's more like 'What's the texture? What's the over-arching story?' There are more things to pay attention to than 'Is this the right snare?'
Ernest Dion Wilson -
I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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Her life was her book. She didn’t get to choose the ending, but the way she filled the pages makes her story irresistible.
Esther Earl -
The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
Benjamin Ávila -
The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Eleanor Farjeon -
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
Erica Jong -
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.
William Hudson O'Hanlon
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I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.
Blackie -
You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't want to leave anything out, but you want to tell a good story so the people will read it and they're engaged and they don't fall apart with extraneous details.
Andrew Aydin -
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
Thomas Hardy -
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.
John C. McGinley