Stories Quotes
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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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 would love to keep playing roles where I get to inspire young women, and I get to uplift them and tell their stories and tell important stories that haven't been told.
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.
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I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
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I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.
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I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
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Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
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Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
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The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
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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.
