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“She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story shed been told, the story of a thing she did not deserve. But he understood. He called those thought...”
“Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.”
“A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powd...”
“If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.”
“It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284”
“'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.”
“'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.”
“A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.”
“Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.”
“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”
“Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major...”
“That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.”
“The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.”
“If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.”
“History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.”
“'Macbeth' is an amazing story.”
“I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing ...”
“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't qu...”
“I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.”
