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The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.
I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.
It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither
The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.
We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.
It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.
Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.
Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.
I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.