Stories Quotes
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Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.
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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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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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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 currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.
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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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If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
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All my jewelry has stories.
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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
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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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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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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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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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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
