Personal Stories Quotes

• The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Peace, Science, Technology

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press

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• The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...

  Bethany Hamilton

  Encouragement, Media, People

  "Annasophia Robb And Bethany Hamilton Talk Soul Surfer: Interview With Shark Victim Surfer And The Actress Who Played Her". Santa Monica Mirror Interview, smmirror.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

  Hedi Slimane

  Stories, Remember, Behinds

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

  Ed Helms

  Thinking, Yarn, Long

  "Ed Helms: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.

  Robert Greene

  Stories, Natural Gifts, Study

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• Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.

  Michael Hyatt

  Real, Giving, Stories

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• You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.

  Montel Williams

  Reality, Thinking, Gone Away

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Hero, Adversity

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• My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

  Jeremy Abbott

  Perseverance, Fall, Champion

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• Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent job describing the cloistered lifestyle and fascinating traditions of the Romani people. Moreover, Mikey's personal story of being a misfit among misfits is both compelling and universal. I cheered for him every step of the way.

  Julia Scheeres

  Jobs, Reading, Boys

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• I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Kings, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive Interview: Harvey Weinstein, on ‘The Intouchables,’ His Career, and What Comes Next". Fandango Interview, weinsteinco.com. July 12, 2012.

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• We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Thinking, Interesting

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Stories, Ifs

  Source: goseetalk.com

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• Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked on and I think is something that you should be very proud of.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Achievement

  Source: time.com

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• I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Events, Stories

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Goal, Stories

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

  Harold Ramis

  Writing, Stories, Next

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, Zombie, Stories

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

  Charlie Sheen

  Recovery, Dark, Play

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.

  Saya Woolfalk

  Thinking, Want, Stories

  Source: badatsports.com

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• With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Powerful, Book, Self

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• Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Book, Events, Germany

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• I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're going to change a grownup's mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It's also not a textbook.

  Bill Nye

  Reading, Years, Ideas

  "It's that Guy! An Interview with 2010 Humanist of the Year Bill Nye". Interview with Clay Farris Naff, thehumanist.com. November 20, 2014.

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• One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.

  Scott Snyder

  Character, Stories

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Communication, People, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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