Stories Quotes
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A story? No. No stories, never again.
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The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
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I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change people's lives. It's so cerebral, you never know who you can affect out there.
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I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
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You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
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If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.
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I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
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The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
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Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
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Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.
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I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.
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These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.
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I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.
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One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.
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I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.
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Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their stories.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
