Story Quotes
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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?
Margaret Mitchell
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The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
Bob Goff
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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
Steven Spielberg
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Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.
Morris Chestnut
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Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
Erwin McManus
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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
Joyce Kilmer
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This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours — yours.
Elizabeth Cunningham
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I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
Steven Spielberg
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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.
Natalie Portman
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We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
Harrison Ford
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I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.
Susan Carroll
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Everyone has a story that changed their life forever. Remember to have compassion.
Katrina Mayer
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I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.
Beth Revis
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The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
Paul G. Tremblay
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It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
Susan Hill
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Haruki Murakami
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I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
Steven Spielberg
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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
Jane Austen
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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.
Paul Park