When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.
Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.
The real story of Detroit [. . . ] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.
You can insist on a different end to the story.
When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.
For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?
I wish I had a funny story.
. . . If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
I think I'm always drawn to a good story
Most of these stories, you get probably 2 percent real fruit juice and the rest is just garbage with no nutritional value.
Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.
Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist
There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.