Stories Quotes
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.
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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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My main goal is to tell a story.
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I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.
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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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The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.
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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
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Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.
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There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.
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Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.
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For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
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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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The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.
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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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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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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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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.
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I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
