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Quotes About Stories

I have read and heard so many stories from people all around the world describing how they've found their own reason to believe through Arch Enemy, and that genuinely inspires me and keeps me going.
~ Alissa White-Gluz
So much of life's dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it's really inspiring for any number of stories in all the fields I write in.
~ Peter Hedges
I found Wattpad because I was reading a story on Instagram, actually. They're called 'Imagines,' and they are like little fanfictions that people used to write on Instagram before Wattpad was the place to go.
~ Anna Todd
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
~ Malorie Blackman
I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
~ Sarah Kay
Sometimes I've made mistakes and not really listened to my instincts, and I've done a project, and I've been disappointed with the consequence, I think, as a consequence of not listening to whatever part of me it is that, at its base, is interested in telling interesting stories.
~ Alex Lawther
I definitely gravitate toward characters that have a lot of integrity and it's so important to be to be working on shows that tell great stories.
~ Mikey Madison
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
~ Charles Bass
The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.
~ George Lucas
I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.
~ Finn Jones
I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
~ Samantha Shannon
On the 'Today' show, I feel comfortable because I get to interact with people. I love that interaction. I love hearing other people's stories. I would much rather have that human interaction so it feels like a real conversion than just standing there and demonstrating things to the camera.
~ Marcela Valladolid
I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful stories, complex stories, deep stories.
~ Jovan Adepo
I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.
~ Stella Young
I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.
~ Susanna Clarke
As an actor, one is always looking at doing interesting things... meatier roles... stories that turn out exactly the way on screen like when they were narrated to you.
~ Neha Sharma
There's so many different medias on the internet, taking it from the big medias and making their own little article out of that and changing it into something that it isn't. There's never one story from an interview, there's always so many different stories.
~ Kevin Magnussen
If I say one thing to the UFC, I say it in an interview. I don't have conflicting stories.
~ Jose Aldo
With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.
~ Tom Green
Para muitas pessoas, o contato com as histórias nunca antes contadas de abuso e desigualdade presentes na peça reforçou uma necessidade de assumir a responsabilidade por seus próprios papéis no ciclo de violência – como vítimas e sobreviventes, testemunhas ou agentes.
~ Eve Ensler
I believe that a writer should never attempt a contemporary theme or a very precise topography. Otherwise people are immediately going to find mistakes. Or if they don't find them, they're going to look for them, and if they look for them, they'll find them. That's why I prefer to have my stories take place in somewhat indeterminate places and many years ago.
~ Fernando Sorrentino
Heaven and happiness do not exist. These are stories told by your fathers to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is reality, harsh reality: this slaughterhouse where we came to die, to kill and by the way kill the animal, our neighbor.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Presenting honest stories of working people as told by rich Hollywood stars"
~ Firesign Theatre
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
~ Frances Hardinge