Stories Quotes
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If I was living in a happier place," said Eggingarde, "I might tell stories with happier endings.
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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
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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 all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
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We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.
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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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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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You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.
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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.
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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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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their stories.
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[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.
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I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.
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One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.
Nick Willing -
I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
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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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I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
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My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.
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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!
