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It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.
The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.
Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.
...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.
ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ
I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.
So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.
I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.
By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.
Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.
I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.
I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.