Story Quotes
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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.
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I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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"The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
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When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it.
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The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
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If something wants to be a story, it will be.
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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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The Bible continues to tell the story of how God did not simply walk away from his creation in the midst of turmoil and rebellion but purposed to rescue it at great cost to himself through the sacrificial death and subsequent resurrection of his Son, Jesus.
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You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at last, the one that ends in joy.
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So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
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The world needs your story in order to be complete.
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Create a story of which you will be proud.
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If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
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To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
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I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.
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I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
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I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
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I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
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The best story is the story that gets to the most people.
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While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.
