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I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will be able to understand also.
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.
The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.
We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.
It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.
There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.
However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid.
I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
It would be good to rely on the man during my most tired moments. The best is if he will listen to my stories when I am stressed.
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.
A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.
Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.
These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story
The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.
For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the story.
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.
I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.
If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.
There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.
You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.
I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.