Story Quotes
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It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.
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Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.
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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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There is no back label with a story on a beer can.
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Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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The first principle was “Story Is King,” by which we meant that we would let nothing—not the technology, not the merchandising possibilities—get in the way of our story.
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I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
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When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.
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History is a ghost story.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
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Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).
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If something wants to be a story, it will be.
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No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody’s ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn’t already made up my mind to say.
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Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.
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It's been exciting to share my story for people to relate to me and reach out.
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I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.
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The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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You can't blame a book for its story.
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Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
