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“If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.”

“"We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"”

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Author:Chinua Achebe

“What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.”

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Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I think you have to do the stories that interest you and hope an audience likes it, rather than doing stories that you think the audience will like, whether you like them or not. I think there has to be something that you find compelling and interesting, and then hopefully an audience will agree with you.”

Thinking Stories Interest Interesting Audience Agree Likes Hopefully Compelling

Author:David Shore

“You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.”

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Author:David Shore

“Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.”

People Different Stories Fire Week Folks Twists Old Days Taverns

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.”

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Author:Markus Zusak

“Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.”

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Author:Anton Corbijn

“I love to tell stories and I love to work with directors and I think I write really visually, which I think directors like, and I love making movies, so I found something that I'm good at and I'm really happy doing.”

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Author:John Orloff

“I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.”

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Author:Nas

“I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.”

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Author:Lana Del Rey

“When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.”

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Author:Mike Tyson

“I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and stuff that I'm not in and really make a good run at it as a production. I'm probably going to take a break from acting after a little while because I've enjoyed the developmental process so much. It helps you as an actor to learn story and to learn how to really nurture a script and work with a writer so you're not sitting there having to write it yourself and give notes.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.”

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Author:Tim Burton

“Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the story of an icon. You've got to get it right. Otherwise, you'll get killed by critics and fans.”

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Author:Graham King

“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.”

“When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Character Stories Fun Appeals

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.”

Feels Trying Stories Novel Originals

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at, what's the image we're photographing, how will that advance the story and what will the next image be.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.”

People Thinking Important Real Stories Song Real Story

Author:Negash Ali

“In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings.”

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Author:Peg O'Connor

“I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, there's The Martian Child, which is about my son and the adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.”

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Author:David Gerrold

“When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.”

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Author:David Gerrold

“Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“I'm sure everyone's got their back story. I don't come from a place of where I was tortured and needed to let something out. I came from a very happy home. I was a little out of control at times. But my family... we all liked to be funny, we all liked to make each other laugh.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.”

Doe Stories Painting Paint Oil Decades Obsession Painter Incomplete Thickness

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.”

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Author:Robert Moss

“Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.”

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Author:Cory Trepanier

“As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I am surprised at how often the theme of dead trees arise. I guess it's that each one seems to have a story of its own, representing many years of living through everything that nature could throw at them.”

Years Looks Stories Seems Tree Elements Arise Theme Representing Fondness Dead Trees

Author:Cory Trepanier

“Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.”

Different Stories Painting Quartets

Author:Guido Molinari

“I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.”

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Author:Nick Simmons

“The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.”

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Author:ZZ Packer

“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.”

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Author:Billy Cannon

“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.”

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Author:David

“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.”

Stories Happens Blooming

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.”

Stories Winning Happened Hero Bullshit

Author:Hugh Howey

“VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.”

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Author:Aleatha Romig

“Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!”

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Author:Bootsy Collins

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