Stories Quotes
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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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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
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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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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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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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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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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.
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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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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.
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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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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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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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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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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 always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
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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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It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
