"I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story."
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"I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them."
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"The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable."
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"All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?"
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"Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking."
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"Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us."
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"The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories."
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"Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help"
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"The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest."
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"Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable."
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"If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story."
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"Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story."
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"The heart responds to the conflict within a story."
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"the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did."
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"If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died."
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"Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision."
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"When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!"
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"I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change people's lives. It's so cerebral, you never know who you can affect out there."
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"Separate the story - your story - from facts."
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"In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story."
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