Stories Quotes
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Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.
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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in Hamlet did happen several times in the 500 years of Ottoman history.
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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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Every picture tells a story, don't it?
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
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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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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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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 work on stories rather than individual pictures.
