Alan Greenspan Quotes, Together Quotes, Stories Quotes

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

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I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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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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You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.

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I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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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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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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

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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

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The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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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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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Stories Quotes , Substance Quotes

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

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