Stories Quotes
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When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.
Bob Gibson
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
Teju Cole
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I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.
Sebastiao Salgado
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I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
Jim Davis
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What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
William H. Gass
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I love truthful songs that tell a story and talk about people and their lives. If a song calls for a tear, then we will cry. If a song calls for a smile, then we will laugh. That is what I like to do.
Gene Watson
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Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.
Ben Edlund
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Stephen Sondheim
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As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.
Elizabeth Goudge
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No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
Vincente Minnelli
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
Kevin Spacey
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Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.
Jimmy Buffett
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Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.
Pete Yorn
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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
Steven Spielberg
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I am the guinea pig of my films in a way. I test the stories a bit before I make them. I've never hung myself like the character in my latest film, but I've tried to be a reporter of life.
Claude Lelouch
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I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something, or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently or think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.
Dee Rees
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I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
