Stories Quotes
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There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.
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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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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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I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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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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Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.
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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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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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War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.
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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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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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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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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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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.
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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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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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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.
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The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
