Stories Quotes
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
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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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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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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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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
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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 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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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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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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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.
