Stories Quotes
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The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
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Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.
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There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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No one has the right to judge you, because no one really knows what you have been through. They might have heard the stories, but they didn't feel what you felt in your heart.
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I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
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I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.
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It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
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If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
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They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.
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I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.
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My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
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The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
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I liked the way that repetition wears things smooth, and there was something of the river stone to Iggie’s stories.
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I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
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Today’s hard news stories were yesterday’s dystopian SF. Rereading
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the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
