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"You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.' That's my hope."
"I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving."
"History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot."
"The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold"
"There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline."
"Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them."
"No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story."
"That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story."
"I could write stories just as rotten."
"About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome."
"I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates."
"When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director."
"We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)"
"I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story."
"The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories."
"Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned."
"The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition."
"The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history."
"I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me."
"We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story."
