Stories Quotes
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People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.
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The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
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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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I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.
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I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.
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I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.
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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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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story - so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
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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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Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry about the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.
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A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
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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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If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.
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But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.
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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 love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled to tell many of these stories and have ended up being a broadcaster after originally going to drama school and working in fashion for a bit.
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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 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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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
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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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It's the story that counts.
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'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.
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I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.
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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.
