Stories Quotes
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If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.
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I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.
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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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If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
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A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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If I can't see stories in the lives of the people around me,--I just couldn't see them anywhere. If I can't see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn't detect it in humans far away.
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I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.
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The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
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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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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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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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All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.
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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 hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.
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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
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I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.
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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 love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.
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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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A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.
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When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that "having it all" is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a simple matter of "choice," we ignore the systematic problems that make combining work and motherhood so difficult.
