Stories Quotes
-
It's hard to know what's going to happen when you're filming a reality show, but if you just let life unfold, that's when the best stories evolve.
-
My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.
-
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
-
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.
-
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
-
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
-
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?
-
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
-
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
-
Let's ask the question, what if reincarnation was real? Think about all the possibilities that that opens up and all the stories we could tell. I have learned to be incredibly open-minded about it. I've learned that there is an entire world of people out there who are fascinated by this stuff.
-
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.
-
We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
-
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
-
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.
-
Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
-
The main difference to me with Lyft is the sense of community and social experience. The pink mustache, fist bump and strict screening have fostered a strong sense of community with many stories of new friends, discovered jobs, and even some Lyft hugs after a tough break up.
-
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.
-
The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
-
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
-
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.
-
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.
-
That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.
-
You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.
-
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
