Stories Quotes
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
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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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I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
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Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
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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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I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.
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I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.
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I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.
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I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.
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Stories are not complicated. They are, in fact, deceptively simple. But like anything simple, they are difficult to create.
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She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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There is only one type of story in the world-your story.
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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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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Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
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Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.
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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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The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
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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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Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.
