Story Quotes
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A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.
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Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
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My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.
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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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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
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I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.
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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.
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Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.
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I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
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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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It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
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I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
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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.
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
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I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.
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Every story is us
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Good marketers tell a story.
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We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
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Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
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The story is the first thing and the last thing.
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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
