Stories Quotes
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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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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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But for the rest of us, we all have stories, we all have a past, and the difference between people who are effective and people who are not is this: Will you use your story, or will your story use you?
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I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
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People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.
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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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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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I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
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I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.
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Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that.
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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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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
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You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place.
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Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
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I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
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Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.
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I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
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I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.
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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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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
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Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.
