Stories Quotes
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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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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.
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I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.
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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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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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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
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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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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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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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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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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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My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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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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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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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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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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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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What are the stories you want people to tell about you?
