Stories Quotes
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I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.
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Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.
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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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Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.
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You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too.
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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.
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Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
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I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.
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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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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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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
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I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
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It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.
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Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.
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At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.
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It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
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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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The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.
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My whole story is just about me having a second chance.
