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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But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.
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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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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 is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
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Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.
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Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
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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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My friends have made the story of my life.
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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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Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.
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You must remind me: “Edith! Speak up! Tell the story.” It has been more than half a century. I suppose it is time.
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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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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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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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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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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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Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.
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Everybody has a story to tell.
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I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.
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The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
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I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.
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I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
