Stories Quotes - Page 199

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

The truth is not so good a story.

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

I used to retain information extremely fast, so perhaps it's hardening a bit and I don't take the impression as well as I used to. Instead of writing in free flight, I had to check on the stories all the time. So I have decided I better to do it while I am fresh!

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going to happen and everything's going to happen. It's just the gaze. You create your own zone.

I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it.

If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.

My story has been the story of my generation.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.