Stories Quotes
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You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
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Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.
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I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.
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Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
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The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
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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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Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her lyrics and melodies-- poignant, tender and tough. These are stories from the heart that will lift you up and carry you to places you had never dreamed.
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For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
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I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
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When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
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If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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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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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.
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For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.
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When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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.
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Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our own.
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Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera and get it and know it's going to work of the story.
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I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone.
