Story People Quotes

• The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, People, History

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• People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.12, Random House

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• There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Girl, Falling In Love, Father

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 18, 2011

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• The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

  John Verdon

  People, Stories, Possibility

  John Verdon (2012). “Shut Your Eyes Tight”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Successful, Essence, People

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• Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Stories

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• Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Memories, Moving, People

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• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013

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• Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.

  Barry Lopez

  Memories, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jun 30, 2010

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• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  Talib Kweli

  Couple, Blessing, People

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

  Brian Andreas

  Who I Am, Dawn, Remember

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• Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Writing, People

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.421, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, America, People

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• The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

  Caity Lotz

  Book, Reality, People

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

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• I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

  Steve Buscemi

  Fire, People, Stories

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• I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Interview LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2010.

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• I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

  RZA

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

  Cassandra Clare

  Inspiration, Years, People

  Source: www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

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• [Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

  Anton Corbijn

  Character, Ideas, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

  Vivienne Westwood

  Thinking, Masculine And Feminine, Clothes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.

  John Ratzenberger

  Giving Up, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Lonely, Pain, Cancer

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• What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

  Muhammad Ali

  People, Weakness, Stories

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2010

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• If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.

  Keith Green

  Writing, Hands, People

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