Stories Quotes
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
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I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.
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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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I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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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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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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Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
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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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Great stories move through fear.
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I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.
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I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.
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I read about the Trinity. I found something - Jesus was Jewish, he was a rabbi! - and I read a lot of stories about Jesus in Israel. And it's interesting that they picked me for this part in The Snack, and I'm Jewish, I'm kind of religious Jewish from Israel, and I don't look like the traditional Jesus with the long blonde hair and blue eyes.
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The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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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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I like 'Vampire Diaries' because it has great stories.
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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.
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I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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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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Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
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A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
