Stories Quotes
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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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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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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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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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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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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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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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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I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.
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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...
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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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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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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.
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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
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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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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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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
