Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Islands Quotes, Stories Quotes

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

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

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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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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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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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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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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

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Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

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I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.

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I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

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