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Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.
When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.
[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.
The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.
It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.
The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.
Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.
Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?
We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.
My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.
Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.
You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.
There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.
It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect.
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.
We have got amazing filmmakers in New Zealand with amazing stories to tell, and I want to keep being a part of that.
I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.
There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories.
In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.
Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.
I am glad that 'Lust Stories' is coming on Netflix as opposed to the kind of commercial release it was going to get.
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.