Story Quotes
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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.
Nina Cassian -
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.
Florence Pugh
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The world needs your story in order to be complete.
Anne Jackson -
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.
Adam Conover -
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.
Tom Hanks -
It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?
Jennine Capó Crucet -
I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.
Petra Haden -
But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
Errol Morris
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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
Nina Bawden -
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
Ben Bova -
Rooted in the word history is story. And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs -
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
Binnie Kirshenbaum -
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer -
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.
Harrison Ford
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But most of our patients were unable to make their past into a story that happened long ago.
Bessel van der Kolk -
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
Cate Blanchett -
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
Stockwell Day -
The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.
Sarah Michelle Gellar -
It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything I did was awful, but it was just writing another story in a world that's full of stories.
Dennis O'Neil -
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Jane Austen
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I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
Michael Welch -
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
Suzanne Collins -
Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that process. I don't exactly know how the story just comes, but it does. But in writing a story that you're inventing, versus writing a story that somebody else has made up - there's a world of difference. In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing.
Elliott Colla -
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
Emily Susan Rapp