Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Quotes tagged ‘Story’
[first words of the movie] Inside a snowflake, like the one on your sleeve, there happened a story you must see to believe.
— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Narrator (voice), Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
i don’t need you to write my story. i write every day & you couldn’t even translate the fucking punctuation. -she.
Jack Torrance: Well, that is quite a story. Stuart Ullman: Yeah it is. It's still hard for me to believe it happened here. It did, and I think you can appreciate why I wanted to tell you about it. Jack Torrance: I certainly can and I also understand why your people in Denver left it for you to tell…
— Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson, imdb.com
We all create stories to protect ourselves.
What’s on the paper, that tells a story that we want to tell. But what’s not on the paper, that’s what people remember.
— Jennifer Johnson, Michael Gunn, Jason Atwood, Malik Yoba, imdb.com
What the fuck kind of story is this?!
— Zach Robbins, Chloe Domont, Joe Krutel, Rob Corddry, imdb.com
I think there is always two sides to every story and I want to be supportive of both.
A little story to illustrate: I was doing Long Day's Journey into Night at the Pasadena Playhouse with a bunch of coke heads. It's usually about a three-hour play. We could bring it in at just under thirty-seven minutes. We thought we great!
— Elizabeth Sarnoff, Gene Cousineau, Henry Winkler, imdb.com
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then you would be better off somewhere else. In this story, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning, and very few happy things in the middle.
— Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Patrick Warburton, imdb.com
Cliff Cobb: It's my grandfather's salad. I'm a Cobb of Cobb Salad fame. Larry: I think that this is a real bullshit story.
Bart: I've got a story so scary you'll wet your pants. Grampa: Too late.
— Wallace Wolodarsky, Sam Simon, Mike Reiss, Al Jean, Jon Vitti, Jay Kogen, Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, imdb.com
If you don’t want a story to be told, it’s better to tell it yourself.
The moral of this story is a good deed is its own reward.
Dewey: Mom, can I have a story? Lois: Once upon a time, there was a little boy that made his mom so crazy she decided to sell him to a circus.
— Pang-Ni Landrum, Maggie Bandur, Lois, Jane Kaczmarek, imdb.com
If there’s one thing pirates love more than treasure, it’s a good story.
— Grainne Godfree, Ubah Mohamed, Mick Rory / Heat Wave, Dominic Purcell, imdb.com
A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history.
— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Jack Rackham, Toby Schmitz, imdb.com
For starters they think that this place is just a fairy tale. Like a legend, like we’re all just characters in a story.
— Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Neal Cassidy, Michael Raymond-James, imdb.com
Bianca: Ok, here goes. This is so scary. I was lying in bed watching 'One Tree Hill,' my favorite show. Chad Michael Murray is so hot. And I had this cute little kitty alarm clock, it meows and blinks its eyes every half hour. So, all of a sudden, they just start blinking over and over and over, and…
Oh, I tell a great story and I'm a liar, but Harry Potter does it and he's your favorite writer.
— Seth MacFarlane, Erik Durbin, Mike Barker, Stan Smith (voice), Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com