Maya Angelou Quotes, Stories Quotes, Heard Quotes

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

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I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stories Quotes , Steps Quotes

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Stories Quotes , England Quotes

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

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Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Truth Quotes , Stories Quotes