Stories Quotes - Page 115

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know what you’ll learn when you open one. And if it’s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

Every story needs to be worth telling.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

I am proud of having drawn the first comic about a lesbian - and it didn't even occur to me that I was drawing a first. I just wanted to tell the story of my roommate.

We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.