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As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.
What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.
As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.
I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.
A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.
every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.
Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.
My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.
It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.
I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.
It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.
who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.
I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.
When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.
But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.
It was very cold in jail. But inmates were good. They shared their stories with me.
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.