Stories Quotes
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.
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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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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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Focus on sharing your story and affecting the people that are hungry for your light.
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“Telling stories about your memory of what happened may be entertaining for a while, but if that is all you can do it gets boring pretty fast.”
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TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.
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That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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I think the idea of that is more inspired by the folk music that we’re so into, both playing and listening to. There’s a lot of stories in that, a lot of great rock and roll stuff.
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So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
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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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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
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MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
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I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
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It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
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Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
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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 like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
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Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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The global embrace of the Chilean miners had as much to do with the state of the planet as it did the fate of the trapped men. Every year, thousands of miners are trapped and die. Hundreds more are rescued. The world's press has no shortage of global good-news stories. Heroes abound if reporters and editors take the time to search.
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
