Stories Quotes
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I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
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'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
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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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If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.
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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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Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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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 long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.
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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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If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
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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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Great stories move through fear.
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Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.
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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.
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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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Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
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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 photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
