Stories Quotes · Page 236

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

— R. Kelly

You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.

— Taylor Swift

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

— Junot Diaz

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

— Anonymous

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

— David Simon

ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ

— Richelle Mead

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to…

— Beth Orton

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter…

— Vera Nazarian

Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked…

— C.C. Hunter

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two…

— Keira Knightley

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they…

— William Graham Sumner

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you…

— Donald Glover

The Republicans finally got some good news over the weekend. The North Koreans set off a nuclear bomb. Thank God. It was…

— Jay Leno

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these…

— Bob Woodward

I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a…

— Tim DeKay

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I…

— Carl Hiaasen

It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get…

— Anais Nin

The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live…

— Chris Abani

One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so…

— Brit Marling

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes…

— Henry Selick

Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic…

— Arvid Carlsson

In the thousands of stories I've collected over the years there are people who just want to know that their story matters,…

— Matthew West

We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

— Marie Colvin

I like stories. I like to figure out how history ties to the present.

— Jim Nantz

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

— Ryan Phillippe

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

— Paul Auster

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

— Marion Dane Bauer

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

— Georges St-Pierre

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

— Jesse Eisenberg

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

— Karl Pilkington

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

— Morgan Spurlock

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send…

— Candace Bushnell

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

— Reza Aslan

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

— Pam Brown

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

— Benjamin Watson