Stories Quotes - Page 25

• I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.

  Courteney Cox

  Moving, Moments, Ifs

  "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.

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• The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

  Steven Shainberg

  Opinion, Love Story, Problem

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• I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that most of the time I have been seeing the best of people in the first congressional district and connecting with voters and seeing what's important to them hearing their stories and what they want to see happen.

  Rob Zerban

  People, Important, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.

  Vince Gilligan

  Relief, Letters, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

  Paul Auster

  Historical, Needs, Moments

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Reality, Animal, Games

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• I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

  Christopher Lee

  Fairy Stories, Everyday, Gods And Goddesses

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fun, Fighting, Thinking

  "Comic-Con: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, and Director Rian Johnson Talk LOOPER and Turning Gordon-Levitt Into Bruce Willis with Prosthetics". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Two, Keys, People

  "(500) Days of Summer". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

  Keri Russell

  Character, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

  Keri Russell

  Character, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

  Jonah Hill

  Eye, Directors, Actors

  "Jonah Hill: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 20, 2011.

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• In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Mozambique, Monkeys

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Art, Writing, Order

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• I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Character, Color, Use

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

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• Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.

  Ron Shelton

  Hero, Epic, Ordinary

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• Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Skills, Keys, Practice

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Past, Fire

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• How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Training

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• The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Church

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• I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Made, Found

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• As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

  Tom Brevoort

  Next, Firsts, Bricks

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• I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Girl, Book, World

  Mizuki Nomura (2012). “Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (light novel)”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.

  Simon Winchester

  Ocean, Opportunity, Land

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• Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

  Tom Bailey

  Feelings, Fiction, Short Story

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