Paulo Coelho Quotes, Simple Quotes, Stories Quotes

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Stories Quotes , Storytelling Quotes

It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Forever Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : Adam Gidwitz Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Stories Quotes

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

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Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Fun Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : Abderrahmane Sissako Quotes , Country Quotes , Stories Quotes

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Stories Quotes , Storytelling Quotes

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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Tags : Aamir Khan Quotes , Stories Quotes , Kind Quotes

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Names 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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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Stories Quotes , Each Day Quotes

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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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Stories Quotes , Causes Quotes

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

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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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Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Memories Quotes , Stories Quotes

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

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Stories Quotes

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Theatre Quotes , Stories Quotes

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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Tags : Aimee Mullins Quotes , Sports Quotes , Stories Quotes

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Stories Quotes , Wit Quotes

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , People Quotes , Stories Quotes