Stories Quotes
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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Be the hero of your own life story.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
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I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.
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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
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One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
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Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Love stories should be relatable.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
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Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I love twins stories.
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.
