Story Quotes
8077 quotes by 4736 authors
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
— J. J. Abrams
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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
— Lance Armstrong
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel…
— Chinua Achebe
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost…
— Chinua Achebe
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link…
— David Attenborough
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on…
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their…
— Chinua Achebe
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You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form…
— Margaret Atwood
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
— Paul Auster
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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen…
— Paul Auster
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Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
— Jensen Ackles
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You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story…
— Kevin Bacon
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A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant…
— Russell Baker
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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
— Clive Barker
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
— Charles Barkley
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when…
— James M. Barrie
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
— John Barth
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