Stories Quotes
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?
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How do we change the world? Change the story.
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.
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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
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The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
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We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.
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I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.
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As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
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When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
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The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
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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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A miracle is an invitation into a new 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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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
