Stories Quotes
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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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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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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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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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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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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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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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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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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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MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.
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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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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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Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
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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 allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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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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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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Great stories move through fear.
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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 want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.
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I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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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.
