Stories Quotes
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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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Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
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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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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.
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I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'
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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
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I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.
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I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.
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I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of intense negative feelings - say, in horror films or tragedies as intense as King Lear - but we come out feeling richer. We've lived to the fullest, we've tested ourselves in these environments.
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When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
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Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
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That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.
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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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If I was living in a happier place," said Eggingarde, "I might tell stories with happier endings.
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We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.
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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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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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It’s possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people’s stories.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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Empathy is the key to great stories.
