"Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan."
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"My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying."
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"You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories."
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"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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"I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children."
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"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company."
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"Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for."
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"A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change."
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"I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story."
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"Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature."
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"You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films."
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"Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story."
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"I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it."
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"Every object tells a story if you know how to read it."
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"I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology."
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"I guess some stories do not need telling."
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"I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself."
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"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
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"And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen."
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"Good and bad - this is the story of my life."
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