Stories Quotes
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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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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Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
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If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
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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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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've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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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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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
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Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.
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I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.
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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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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.
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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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As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the way that I wanted to. And I did them as an exercise, because I, who do very long films, never thought I would be able to tell a story in 30 or 40 seconds - you come across a whole new system and manner of approaching a subject.
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My whole story is just about me having a second chance.
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Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.
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Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story
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Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
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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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I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.
