Stories Quotes
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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 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 come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
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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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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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Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself
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The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o
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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.
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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.
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We need to continue to strive to tell these different 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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We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”
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The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in that regard, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better example than IN MINT CONDITION: 2013. In reading it, I have discovered writers and artists previously unknown to me who are now very high on my radar, and they should be just as high on yours.
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I'm the type to tell stories while letting myself go.
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It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
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Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
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We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.
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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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Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
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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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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.
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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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There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
