Stories Quotes - Page 33

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

There are no truths. Only stories.

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.