Stories Quotes
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I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.
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The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.
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I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
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Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
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As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.
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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
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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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It's always the story that interests me.
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I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.
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I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
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I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.
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Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.
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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
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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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All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
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The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
