Stories Quotes
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Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
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All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
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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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Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
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I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.
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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
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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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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
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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.
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
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When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
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It love about acting is all about role playing – the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.
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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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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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While I love working on dramatic characters and stories, it's comedy that I love the most. For me, it's incredibly rewarding to make a person laugh. Laughter is one of the greatest parts of life.
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.
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I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.
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Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
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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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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
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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.
