Oprah Winfrey Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Stories Quotes

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

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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 could write stories just as rotten.

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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

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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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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

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Stories Quotes

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

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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 censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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

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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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Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Stories Quotes , Narrative Quotes

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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