Stories Quotes
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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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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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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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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
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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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There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
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The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
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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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The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving 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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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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The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.
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At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
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I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.
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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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The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
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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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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.
