Stories Quotes - Page 36

• Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before wed go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be The Happy Prince, The Gift of the Magi and Twas the Night Before Christmas, and I would like to keep that alive.

  Cameron Mathison

  Mom, Dad, Holiday

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• The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

  Scarlett Pomers

  Real, People, Eating Disorder

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• The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

  Dominique McElligott

  Fun, Writing, Character

  "Dominique McElligott HELL ON WHEELS Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 05, 2011.

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• Love and appreciation are identical vibrations. Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good. When you focus upon what you want - ;when you tell the story of how you want your life to be - you will come closer and closer to the vicinity of appreciation, and when you reach it, it will pull you toward all things that you consider to be good in a very powerful way.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Powerful, Focus

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.295, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

  Til Schweiger

  Emotional, Germany, Needs

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• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  Karyn Parsons

  Mother, Interesting, Black

  "Karyn Parsons’ Mission To Share The Untold Stories Of Black History Heroes". Interview with Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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• My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.

  John Boyega

  Dad, Ark, Littles

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

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• Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

  John Boyega

  Character, Interesting, Good Story

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• I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

  "Real-life romance" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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• Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways its a lot easier than acting because youre orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes youre trying to second-guess what people want.

  Paddy Considine

  People, Trying, Acting

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• At the end of the day, my life isnt about other peoples work. Ive got to stop giving stuff away. Ive got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. Ive got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

  Paddy Considine

  Giving, The End Of The Day, Needs

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• I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

  Paddy Considine

  Reality, People, Laughing

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• I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

  Aneurin Barnard

  Father, Age, Watches

  "The Truth About Aneurin Barnard". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

  Liya Kebede

  Chance, Kind, Obsessed

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• I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Insane, Negative, Controversial

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• When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Cutting, Village, Saws

  "NBA Player Amar’e Stoudemire Joins ‘Village of Peace’ Docu as Exec Producer" by Andrea Seikaly, variety.com. January 30, 2014.

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• Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.

  Nick Earls

  Book, Moving, Heart

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• As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity

  Philippa Perry

  Memories, War, Worry

  Philippa Perry, The School of Life (2012). “How to Stay Sane”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

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• An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.

  Jim C. Hines

  Book, Writing, Fire

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• Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

  Jim C. Hines

  Writing, Years, Groups

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• Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Hero, Character, Bridges

  Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

  Theresa Breslin

  Emotional, Order, Literal

  "Theresa Breslin: bringing the past to life". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2010.

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• Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

  William Kent Krueger

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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• When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

  Julie Kagawa

  Teenager, Character, Thinking

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• Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

  Amy Harmon

  Literature, Periods, Depiction

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