Stories Quotes
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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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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known 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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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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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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I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
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I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
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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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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
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The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
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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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Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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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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I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.
