Stories Quotes
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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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There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.
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But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael’s journal, it’s as if I can see myself. It’s better than a mirror.
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You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
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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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The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
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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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I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.
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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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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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How do we change the world? Change the story.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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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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In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.
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I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
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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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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
