Stories Quotes
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If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.
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And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.
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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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All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
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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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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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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's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.
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STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
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Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
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Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.
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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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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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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.
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You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.
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I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.
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There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
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I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
