Story Quotes
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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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In oral societies it is recognized that the telling of a story to a different audience or in a different context or for a different reason calls for a different version of the story. Stories are molded to the time and circumstance in which they are told.
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I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.
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If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.
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My greatest success story has been my family.
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A story can only be contained in a book.
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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.
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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.
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We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?
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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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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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Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new 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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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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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.
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I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.
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Do not spoil the wonder with haste!
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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.
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All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.
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I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
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I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.
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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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A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
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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.
