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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.
The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.
Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.
I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do.
The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.
[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.
The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.
I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.
You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.
How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.
Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.
A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!
The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.
The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.