Stories Quotes
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.
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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
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I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.
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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18-years-old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.
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...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
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I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.
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I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
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The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.
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Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
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Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
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Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.
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A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
