"We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
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"Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus."
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"Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance."
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"Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing."
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"I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money."
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"Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story."
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"For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay."
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"I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being."
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"When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon."
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"Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories."
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"You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after."
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"But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats."
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"Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work."
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"I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories."
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"I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories."
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"We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life."
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"I am proud of having drawn the first comic about a lesbian - and it didn't even occur to me that I was drawing a first. I just wanted to tell the story of my roommate."
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"I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true."
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"The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life."
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"You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself."
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