Stories Quotes
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Over the weeks I am surprised to find that the more stories I record and the longer I carry them around, the lighter they become. I find out that the difference between knowing something and being able to talk about it is that there we many hands now, and we all share the burden...
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The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.
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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
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It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.
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We need new stories, but I am looking forward to The Dark Crystal.
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You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
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You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
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I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.
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I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.
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We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell.
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I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.
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When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
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I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
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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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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.
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I mean, is it journalism? Is it just opinion? Are we putting facts out there? Are we trying to uncover stories? And so, the issue comes up, what is the liability?
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I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
