#stories

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. ↗

— Dave Barry

#am #faces #fact #feel #happy

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#beginning #end #forgotten #how #middle

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#escape #how #interests #only #reality

I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#cared #career #career path #challenging #film

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#bounced #long #long time #mind #stories

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too. ↗

— John Bolton

#better #buildings #could #government #government agencies

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#me #old #radio #stories #telling

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#deceit #deception #fable #fake #false

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#her #homes #i #imagine #instead