Afia Nathaniel Quotes, Risk Quotes, Stories Quotes

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Women Quotes , Stories Quotes

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Stories Quotes , Narrative Quotes

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Stories Quotes , Able Quotes

The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Faces Quotes , Stories Quotes

You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.

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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stories Quotes , Steps Quotes

The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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Tags : Alanis Obomsawin Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Stories Quotes

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stories Quotes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Stories Quotes , Causes Quotes

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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

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Tags : A. E. van Vogt Quotes , Self Quotes , Stories Quotes

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Stories Quotes

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Stories Quotes