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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.
My grandfather told me our history through his stories about all the great Zulu battles.
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.
A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.
That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.
Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.
I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.
Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.
[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.
The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.
The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.
We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.
Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story