Stories Quotes
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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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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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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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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...
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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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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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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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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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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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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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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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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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 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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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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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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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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Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
