Story Quotes
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What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.
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When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
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I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.
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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.
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The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.
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Every single person is the star of their own story, which means that every single person goes through the gamut of emotional experiences that we’re trying to get on stage and tell.
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In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.
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The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
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I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.
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A story can only be contained in a book.
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You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.
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If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?
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Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.
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Preparing a lieder recital is quite different to me than preparing an operatic role. In an opera you are one of many striving to tell a story.
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Do not spoil the wonder with haste!
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It's no sin to tell a good story.
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
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It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.
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In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.
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One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
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Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.
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One of my complaints is that you've got far more scientists than ever before but the pace of discovery has not increased. Why? Because they're all busy just filling in the details of what they think is the standard story.
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I don’t care if these words don’t rhyme, I don’t care if this melody isn’t exciting, I don’t care if these people have heard this story before—this is my story and I’m putting it out.
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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
