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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.
I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.
The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.
Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.
There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.
We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.
What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.
I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.
People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!
I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.
I do know about stories where hackers that left Russia or Ukraine for Europe or the United States were unexpectedly arrested.
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.
I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.
I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.
Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.
Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story