Stories Quotes - Page 27

• Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

  Jim Goldberg

  Running, Asking Questions, Order

  "Jim Goldberg: Open See". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well

  Lance Wubbels

  Writing, Lines, Life Is

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• Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.

  Michelle Huneven

  Biblical, Imagination, Empathy

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• There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Bridges, People, Doubt

  "Kurilpa Bridge". Book by Haig Beck, p. 72, 2012.

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• Sherlock and Watson are a love story

  Martin Freeman

  Love Story, Watson

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• Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Doe, Action

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• How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

  Washington Irving

  Character, Past, Thinking

  Washington Irving (2012). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• [Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Marijuana, Red, Dirt

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• The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Lasts, Paragraph

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• Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people Ive ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  People, Opinion, Kind

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• The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Moon, Land

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• The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

  Barry Eisler

  Jobs, Essence, Different

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• ...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, My Own, I Can

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• The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Obamacare, Males, Female

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• Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.

  Conan O'Brien

  Long, Today, Pope

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• This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France. Twelve people were killed because a satirical newspaper made jokes that some group found offensive. All of us are accustomed to bad news from around the world. But this story hits home for anybody who mocks anyone.

  Conan O'Brien

  Home, People, Tragedy

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• According to a new report, since he's been governor, Chris Christie has spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Now, I know it seems like the perfect story for a Chris Christie joke but I'm actually on a Chris Christie joke diet. So nothing for me, thanks.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Perfect, Thanks, Stadiums

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• There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, Isis, Two

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• I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Tonight, Kevin, Want

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• This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

  Ben Okri

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Writing, Pages

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• Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.

  Brené Brown

  People, Share

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• Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

  Emma Stone

  Song, Names, Musician

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• When it comes to bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion... Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do.

  George Carlin

  Men, Sky, People

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• Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

  Seth Godin

  Databases, Facts, Position

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