The stories of past courage. . . can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.
For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them bear any resemblance to the truth, including the rumor that I am planning on resigning.
So the story goes, so I'm told The people he knew were Less than golden hearted Gamblers and robbers Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers Like you and me
The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
It wasn't a love story. " -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk. " -Tar
A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it. '
Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.
The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.
The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a period of time in my life when I made directly autobiographical films where I truly told what happened to me. But, now, I don't make directly autobiographical films anymore. I am more for renouncing that and being in front of history. The large part of my work tells about something I know. It's close.
