Stories Quotes
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If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.
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I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.
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I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.
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All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
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As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.
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We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is.
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The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.
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I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.
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It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
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I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy stories which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.
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Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from the heart of your soul and what your existence in this Universe is all about!
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I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.
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I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
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I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
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Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
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We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
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I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.
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I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
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Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.
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I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.
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When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
