Stories Quotes
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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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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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Be the hero of your own life story.
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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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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
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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'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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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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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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Love stories should be relatable.
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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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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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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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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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Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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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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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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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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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've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.
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I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
