Personal Stories Quotes - Page 2

• The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...

  Bethany Hamilton

  Encouragement, Media, People

  "Annasophia Robb And Bethany Hamilton Talk Soul Surfer: Interview With Shark Victim Surfer And The Actress Who Played Her". Santa Monica Mirror Interview, smmirror.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  People, Heartfelt, Stories

  "My LA: Theater, Film And Television Actress Anna Deavere Smith". Interview with Heather Wood Rudulph, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.

  Darin Strauss

  Kindness, Self, Special

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.57, Random House

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• I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

  Gloria Steinem

  Empathy, Stories, Want

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• Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign.

  Bill Maher

  Mother, Cancer, Kids

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• It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

  Lil' Kim

  Encouragement, Inspiration, Emotional

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

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• The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Discovery, People

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• One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

  Jessica Lange

  Love Yourself, Acting, Stories

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• I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Empathy, Violence

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• We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

  Laura Ingraham

  Queens, Russia, Korea

  "Laura Ingraham Tweaks 'Today' On Obama Obsession". "Today" with Matt Lauer, www.newsbusters.org. April 8, 2009.

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• Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that is, our personal story is the main and most interesting story, the only story, really); (2) we're separate from the universe (there's US and then, out there, all that other junk - dogs and swing-sets, and the State of Nebraska and low-hanging clouds and, you know, other people), and (3) we're permanent (death is real, o.k., sure - for you, but not for me).

  George Saunders

  Dog, Real, Clouds

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why there is still a Poland. . . . One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.

  Arnold Beichman

  War, Way, Faces

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• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Irritation, Long

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• Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

  Andrew Gross

  Meaningful, Book, Issues

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• I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

  Patterson Hood

  Writing, People, Stories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to be cultivated. All of us need to reconnect to our source and drop our personal stories, don't we? Men, women, old, young, from here, from there - it is the same. All you can do is your practice. There is nothing else. Don't get caught up. Don't stop. We have to learn how to get out or our own way. Because ultimately, the only thing standing in our way is ourselves.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Men, Practice, Needs

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• In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has lenient drug laws, including wide access to medical marijuana.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Marijuana, Government, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I pray the Lord's Prayer, I begin with the first word, "Our. . ." (see Matthew 6:9) and I stop and ask myself, "Who do I include in this Our?" I remind myself that the story of God is bigger than my personal story, bigger than the story of my religion, bigger than the story of all humanity, and bigger than the story of all creation. In the kingdom of God, these four stories are all really my stories - all at the same time - woven together, giving meaning and life to each other.

  Samir Selmanovic

  Prayer, Giving, Humanity

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• Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

  Peter Block

  Biblical, Giving, Anecdotes

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.54, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

  Nancy Duarte

  Emotional, Glue, Stories

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• Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

  Christian Bale

  Careers, Directors, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

  Frances Stark

  Taken, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before.

  Joan Tewkesbury

  Writing, Interesting, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.

  Elijah Wood

  War, Thinking, Radio News

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

  Christian Bale

  Hero, Risk, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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