Stories Quotes
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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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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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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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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'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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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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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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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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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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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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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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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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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
