Stories Quotes
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All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.
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White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
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We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
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Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.
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So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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If I can't see stories in the lives of the people around me,--I just couldn't see them anywhere. If I can't see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn't detect it in humans far away.
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I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.
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War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.
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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
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At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.
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I apologize for my terrible interview skills. I wasn't prepared to expose stories about something so special and wonderfully private that is happening in my life. I guess a part of me wishes that I'd never have to and that maybe I could protect this special time. I was dreaming.
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I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular. I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because its obnoxious.
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For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.
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Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also means that there are more people wanting to wander around the narrative kitchen telling you how you should be making your story pies.
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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
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A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
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I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
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I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
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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 look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.
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When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
