Story Quotes
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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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"Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
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Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
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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.
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I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.
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The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!
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If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
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Yes,but the news is no different from the drunk in the corner bar:he might have a good story, but that doesn't maen you can trust it.
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You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.
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If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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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.
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Why do they call them daytime dramas, anyway? Shouldn't they be bedtime dramas? All anyone ever talks about is getting someone into bed! Plus if you're at home watching, you're probably watching in bed. And if you're like me, after an hour or two of watching all those sexy goings-on you forget the silly story entirely and fall asleep. Just like it's bedtime!
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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 story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.
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And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.
