Stories Quotes
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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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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 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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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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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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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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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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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
