Stories Quotes
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It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey in the True Detective.They're fun guys with Woody Harrelson. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
Michelle Monaghan -
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
Adam Curtis
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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.
Umberto Eco -
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
Ving Rhames -
A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
Aharon Appelfeld -
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
Eva Green -
Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
I've always been jealous of people who can tell stories really well in a room with a bunch of people. I've never been good at it because I'm not cocky enough to be like, "Okay, everyone, listen right now to this. I'm going to blow your minds with this joke."
Brendan Benson
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All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
Prince William -
'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.
Saoirse Ronan -
Find the stories that unite us.
Ami Vitale -
Ms. Doman had this whole thing about how we have to tell stories about whatever happens to us, and then we can use those stories to decide whether out lives are happy or not, whether events have redeeming aspects or are totally hopeless, that it's really all about how we choose to shape and name things.
Rachel DeWoskin -
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
Judy Blume -
I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.
Troy Polamalu
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Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
Patrick Ness -
I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.
Oprah Winfrey -
Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.
C. S. Lewis -
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
Willard Scott -
I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
Ruth Brown
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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
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.
Paul Auster -
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.
Tim Brennan Dropkick Murphys -
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.
Flannery O'Connor