Stories Quotes
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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
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We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.
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As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
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All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.
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I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
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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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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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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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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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Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.
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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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I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.
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I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor.
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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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The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
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You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place.
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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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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
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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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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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My whole story is just about me having a second chance.
