Stories Quotes
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Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
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I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
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I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
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I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.
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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.
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Find the stories that unite us.
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I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.
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I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never actually do it. I respected writers too much, and what they do, to think that I was one of them - and I still feel that way a lot of the time. I still feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer. I'm like, "No, I'm an actor who writes sometimes."
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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.
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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
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Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
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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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What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems.
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I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged.
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Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories.
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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
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It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey in the True Detective.They're fun guys with Woody Harrelson. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
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There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
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I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.
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It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.
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I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors.
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I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.
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What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
