Stories Quotes - Page 101

I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.

I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they think it's about them. You have to make your story, whatever story it is you're telling, their story. So you have to get good at telling a story so they can identify themselves in your story.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

You've heard me talk about the quantum realm in Ant-Man which was certainly designed for that movie and for that story to take the notion of somebody who has the ability to shrink to another level we've never seen before, but as we were doing that, and studying it and talking to the science advisors who are always more than willing to spend an afternoon with us and talk about these amazing things - the quantum realm is another dimension.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.