Good Story Quotes - Page 10

• Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Real, Passion

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• A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Stories, Storytelling

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.75, Univ of California Press

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• The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

  John le Carre

  Struggle, Stories, World

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• The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

  Sid Caesar

  Funny, Stories, Dull

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn’t feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It’s a proper character and that’s my favorite stuff to do.

  Miles Teller

  Halloween, Reading, Character

  "Miles Teller On What Appealed To Him About The Fantastic Four Reboot" By Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. March 8, 2014.

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• It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

  Alan Alda

  Trying, Looks, Stories

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• When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know.  A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Memorable, Doors, Stories

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• Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Friendship, Leader, Brave

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• With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

  Phil Keoghan

  Hero, Needs, Stories

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• Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.

  Oren Peli

  Baby, Thinking, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

  James Payn

  Mistake, Writing, Men

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw in the towel. There is good that can come from anything, even if it's just a later laugh and a good story.

  Lindsey Stirling

  Laughing, Stories, Answers

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• Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

  Robert McKee

  Lonely, Character, Mean

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• I have some good stories yet to tell.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Stories

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• Never underestimate the power of a good story.

  John P. Kotter

  Liars, Stories, Underestimate

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.68, Harvard Business Press

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• I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

  Tony Earley

  Thinking, Stories, Ghost

  Tony Earley (2001). “Somehow Form a Family: Stories that are Mostly True”, Algonquin Books

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• I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.

  Joyce Thompson

  Dumb, Way, Three

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• Our children's children will hear a good story.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Stories, Our Children

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.370, Simon and Schuster

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• I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

  Robert Kirkman

  Art, Finals, Stories

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• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Kids, Successful

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• I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

  Stephen King

  Encouraging, Islands, Sky

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• People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

  Bob Iger

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

  John Lee Hancock

  Stories, Messages, Involved

  "Interview: 'The Blind Side' Director John Lee Hancock". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. March 19, 2010.

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• You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

  Michael Cera

  Trying, Stories, Actors

  Interview with Jennifer Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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