Stories Quotes
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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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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
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I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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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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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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We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
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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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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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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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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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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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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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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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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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This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.
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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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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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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.
