Stories Quotes
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Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.
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The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
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her stories make you believe in the power of love
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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.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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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I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
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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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No, nothing much has changed in me as an actor. Since the day I started out, I always wanted to be part of good stories. The only thing that has changed is now I have options of good stories to choose from.
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Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
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When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
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Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.
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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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I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.
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You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
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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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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
