Robert Frost Quotes, Art Quotes, Stories Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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

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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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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

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