Stories Quotes
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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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I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
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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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There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
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I have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters.
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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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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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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
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Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
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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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I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.
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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
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But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael’s journal, it’s as if I can see myself. It’s better than a mirror.
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Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
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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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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
