Stories Quotes
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It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself.
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But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
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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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Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
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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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There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.
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I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.
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When you talk about the economic process of a society, sometimes we separate it into two stories. One is about monetary variables. But then, we very often assume the underlying arrangement, the other variable, is 'perfect competition,' which means people do whatever they are supposed to do.
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In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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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'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
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Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.
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MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.
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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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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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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
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Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
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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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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
