Stories Quotes
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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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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
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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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I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.
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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 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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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
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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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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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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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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this marketing material deliver that information?
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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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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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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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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.
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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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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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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.
