Stories Quotes
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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.
Ben Drew -
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.
Sandra Cisneros
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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.
Scott McCloud -
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
Scarlett Thomas -
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
William Landay -
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.
Black Francis Pixies -
I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman."
Wayne Flynt -
At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.
Todd Solondz
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A story? No. No stories, never again.
Maurice Blanchot -
The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.
Zazie Beetz -
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
Chip Heath -
And honey, everybody eats art and drinks stories. It's the best drunk there is!
Catherynne M. Valente -
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.
Stephen Sondheim -
All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
William H. Macy
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.
Michael Morpurgo -
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday’s news.
Harvey Fierstein -
It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.
David Lloyd -
Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.
Michael Arrington -
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
Walker Percy
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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.
Scott Speedman -
Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
Alan Rickman -
It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
Rebecca Hall -
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.
Adam Sandler