Story Quotes
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I might like to believe that every day, every hour, every minute of every hour of every day with Henry was *not* the happiest time I ever knew. I might like to believe that I am remembering it that way only because the happiest time ever makes it a better story. Because that's all you have left after people are gone from you, some things and some stories.
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The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
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Story is king. Everything else is a slave to the story.
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By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.
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To me, a great story well told is a great story well told, and just because the protagonist is a young adult doesn't mean that story has less merit or worth than if the protagonist is a full-grown adult.
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Some things you remember, and some you forget. Of the things you remember, you have to wonder what’s real and what’s translated into a memory from a story you heard.
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You can use your story, or your story can use 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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He's a story i want to know from page one.
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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
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If you knew everyone's story, you would love them. You can't really hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down. If you truly know someone, you'd get it.
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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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When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.
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'Red Band Society' is inspiring, funny, and an uplifting story that makes you want to make the most of your life, love and live to the fullest, and that's a great message.
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You can't just keep telling a story the same way over and over again. And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.
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What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?
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Do not spoil the wonder with haste!
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Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.
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I came from the sea and to the sea I would return, to be immersed in her story, ever lost and everlasting.
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My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.
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I feel glamour has a legit place on the ramp and in the fashion world. In films, glamour has to service the story.
