Quotes with stories

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  • Alice Munro The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Bob Shacochis The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Alex Cox The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Ben Wheatley The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Willa Cather There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Callie Khouri There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Cassandra Clare There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Heenan There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bill Kurtis Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Umberto Eco To survive, you must tell stories.
    The Island of the Day Before (2006) 221
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Richard Bach True love stories never have endings.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anne Sullivan 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.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Bill Williams We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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