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#stories

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Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. ↗


— Maynard James Keenan


#global #most #mythologies #religious #root

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories. ↗


— Nigel Kneale


#made #my own #myself #only #own

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world. ↗


— Justin Theroux


#i think #need #our #our world #reflect

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting. ↗


— Marisa Tomei


#artistic #artistically #back #business #challenges

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? ↗


— Bob Uecker


#clubhouse #else #explain #how #letter

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. ↗


— A. E. van Vogt


#any #having #i #recall #self-awareness

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗


— Chris Ware


#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story. ↗


— Harvey Weinstein


#because #did #i #i can #i think

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom. ↗


— Samuel West


#always #bedroom #bedtime #both #did

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. ↗


— Donald E. Westlake


#anything #drain #else #except #god






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