Stories Quotes
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The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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We people are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
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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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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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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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I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
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The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.
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There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
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I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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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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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We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
