Stories Quotes
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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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Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.
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Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
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Hogan had the same match every night for years, and so did Warrior. They didn't tell great stories, to be honest.
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I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.
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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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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
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Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.
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War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
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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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Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.
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I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.
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That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
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You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
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I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
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When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
