Stories Quotes
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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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 best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
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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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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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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...
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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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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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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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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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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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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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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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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
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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 hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read 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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If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
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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.
