Stories Quotes
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Empathy is the key to great stories.
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I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and services and never got paid for what they were owed.
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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
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I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.
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War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.
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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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We people are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.
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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
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I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
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While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.
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I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.
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A conductor's happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.
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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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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
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I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.
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Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.
