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I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.
And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.
Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.
The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.
Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it
Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.
Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.
I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.
I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.
Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the story as best as possible.
For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.
It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.
I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.
Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.
I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.
Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.
If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.
With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.