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Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

Quote by Robert Patterson about history, americans, people

The sky is the limit, there are so many resources out...

The sky is the limit, there are so many resources out there that aren't really being tapped hard or much, like storytelling.

Quote by Robert Patterson about limits, sky, being

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification, such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

Quote by James Payn about disaster, mistake, rules, need, good, good luck, man

Novelist Paul Bailey wrote the story of my life, An...

Novelist Paul Bailey wrote the story of my life, An English Madam, and I became a television and media personality.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about history, personality, television, life

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really...

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

Quote by Austin Peck about love, actors, things, people, contentment

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a...

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

Quote by Simon Pegg about opinion, joke, contentment

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about fashion, word, artists, thinking

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

Quote by Piper Perabo about history, contentment

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Quote by Pericles about earth, symbol, man

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.

Quote by John Perkins about love, change, heart, man

I come from a very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly strong moral values. I think I, you know, I'm a good person overall, and I think my story really shows how this system and these powerful drugs of sex, money and power can...

Quote by John Perkins about origin, drugs, people, family, moral, money, power, old, olderness, sex

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight

Quote by Priscilla Presley about truth, adventure, woman

All of my problems are rather complicated, I need an...

All of my problems are rather complicated, I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Quote by Manuel Puig about problems, need

Life is too short for a long story.

Life is too short for a long story.

Quote by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu about life

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Quote by Italo Calvino about flattering, voice

I believe that each human being has within himself or...

I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or perhaps even a full length book.

Quote by Dee Brown about literature, faith, human imperfections, being

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Quote by Raymond Chandler about literature, good, good luck

If for understanding someone you need to listen patiently...

If for understanding someone you need to listen patiently his or her story, for understanding an interpreter means listening to his music.

Quote by Madalina Manole about music, need, contentment

Sustaining that there is no destiny is the same with saying that the individual is insignificant and the life of human is a meaningless story. Minima moralia

Quote by Andrei Pleșu about destiny, human imperfections, life

Every one of us is a story sculpted in stone time.

Every one of us is a story sculpted in stone time.

Quote by Marius Torok about destiny, time

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