Good Story Quotes - Page 4

• It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

  Matt Walsh

  Believe, Guy, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

  Marguerite Moreau

  People, Different, Stories

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• People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

  Bill Capodagli

  Heart, People, Stories

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

  Winona Ryder

  Roles, Stories, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• The media are very dishonest. In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people - the fake news. They dropped off the word "fake." And all of the sudden, the story became, the media is the enemy. They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying, oh, no, this is no good. But that's the way they are. So I'm not against the media. I'm not against the press. I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't - I don't get too many of them.

  Donald Trump

  Media, People, Fake

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Kids, Successful

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• A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Stories, Storytelling

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.75, Univ of California Press

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• Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Real, Passion

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• All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out of the grave.

  Mike Carey

  Lying, Heart, Fire

  "Lucifer Book Five".

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• In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended. “Prove me wrong.

  Maria V. Snyder

  War, What If, Stories

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.185, Harlequin

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• Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

  Donald Miller

  Book, Writing, Stories

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• Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

  Stephen King

  Book, Library, Stories

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Giving Up, Book, Reading

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• This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good story and the inclining of the mind in the direction of memory. Of course, the memoirist is not allowed to make things up. But the really skilled memoirist knows what to leave in and what to leave out to serve the story. In autobiography you can't do that.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Never underestimate the power of a good story.

  John P. Kotter

  Liars, Stories, Underestimate

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.68, Harvard Business Press

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• I have some good stories yet to tell.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Stories

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• Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

  Robert McKee

  Lonely, Character, Mean

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• I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw in the towel. There is good that can come from anything, even if it's just a later laugh and a good story.

  Lindsey Stirling

  Laughing, Stories, Answers

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• As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

  James Payn

  Mistake, Writing, Men

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.

  Oren Peli

  Baby, Thinking, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

  Phil Keoghan

  Hero, Needs, Stories

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• Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Friendship, Leader, Brave

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• When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know.  A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Memorable, Doors, Stories

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• The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Stories, Want

  "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.

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• A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

  Roy H. Williams

  Stories, Increase, Items

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