Stories Quotes
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I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
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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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I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.
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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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I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly special, an hour, three to four stories each hour.
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We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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Writers like John T. Edge, whose work is all about the cultural histories behind food, have done so much to show that these stories are a really vital part of our cultural heritage.
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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.
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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.
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Stories are flight simulators for our brains.
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
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The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
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People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.
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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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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.
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One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.
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As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
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Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
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You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?
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Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
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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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At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
