Stories Quotes
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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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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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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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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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
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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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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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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.
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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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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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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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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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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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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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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
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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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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.
