Stories Quotes - Page 142

I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and a story. That's what I am and that's what I'll always be from. I was never running away from it.

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I said, "Can I meet her?" And around the corner came this seven-year-old. I was horrified and I almost said to her, "Lady, what are you doing? [American Horror Story] is not for seven-year-olds, I can tell you."

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

I always write a story in one sitting.

Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.

I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the first time I've played a character who is alive.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always has to end satisfying. Unless you're the Coen brothers, and it ends with somebody getting shot in the head.

It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story or a justification to tell you, which I never considered valid because there is not an excuse for violence.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

I think the story is my form.

While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.