Stories Quotes - Page 21

• What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Past, Giving, Locks

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.38, Random House

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• As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.

  Michael Chabon

  Sacrifice, Self, Expression

  Unpublished Letter of Complaint to The New York Review of Books,

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• Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

  Max Lucado

  Roots

  "Max Lucado on his new film and why December is so painful for so many". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, religionnews.com. November 22, 2013.

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• When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is the story of zero to 6 million. It has already happened! And we’re not paying attention! That’s incredible. That’s what had one chance in a million and it already happened.

  Wences Casares

  Zero, Writing, People

  "Meet the man building the Fort Knox of bitcoin". Interview with Ben Popper, www.theverge.com. August 29, 2014.

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• Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.

  George Bodenheimer

  Children, Powerful, Team

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• I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are and how persistence pays off. I learned that some writers are good at doing readings and some are not so good at it.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Reading, Persistence, Pay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

  Ice Cube

  Police, Hollywood, Obsessed

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2014.

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• I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Valuable, Agree

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Thinking, Risk, Ambitious

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Reading, Deep Understanding, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• First of all I have to ask myself what am I trying to say and who am I trying to tell the story to. So if it's just 300 words going in the Independent it's very much where, what, who and when - fantastic. If there's a little bit more scope, if I've been given 1500 words by the sports editor, and I can have a little bit of fun, then I need to maybe entertain, include some different stuff.

  Steve Bunce

  Sports, Fun, Independent

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Men, Voice

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.

  John Legend

  Real, Thinking, Sight

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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• The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Drama, Book

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. Ocober 6, 2003.

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• We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.

  Andrew Keen

  People, Example, Done

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.

  Terry Pratchett

  Zero, Progress, Movement

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d'etre behind it that I feel is important then that's the best for me.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Interesting, Important

  "Denzel Washington and Norman Jewison - part two". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

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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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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  Sam Keen

  Memories, People, Giving

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.

  Charles Halford

  Special, Want, Globes

  Source: collider.com

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• Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Jobs, Gossip, Senators

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Next, Months

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Soros and the Tides Foundation have been trying to indoctrinate our kids. Do you remember that stupid - what was the name of that - what was the name of the film that they did? There it is - "Story of Stuff."

  Glenn Beck

  Stupid, Kids, Names

  "Glenn Beck: Show Me Your Friends". "The Glenn Beck Show", www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, Healthy, Hook

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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