Stories Quotes
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There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
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If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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Unfortunately, because of the way the stories have played over the last few days, I have decided that I am becoming a distraction, and therefore I have asked President Bush to withdraw my name for secretary of labor.
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You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.
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I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.
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He's kind of quiet. We probably dominate the conversation. We've got more stories.
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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
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Love stories thrive on hope.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.
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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl.
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We have a kind of pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second. From the first day we met, Jen would just drag me out and start telling me stories about her relationships.
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Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.
