It’s a universal story, it’s an immigrant story, and it’s a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you’re determined and persevere, you’re going to succeed.
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything – we need only listen.
Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.
Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands – all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.
Stories are medicine.
But, on another level it’s really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.
That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
I’ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I’ve entered my story, I need them more than ever.
When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.
I’ve yet to read a love story that compares with mine.
I didn’t act like I was there. I just got into the story.
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.
According to a new report, since he’s been governor, Chris Christie has spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Now, I know it seems like the perfect story for a Chris Christie joke but I’m actually on a Chris Christie joke diet. So nothing for me, thanks.
I’m so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I’m a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.
I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of it becomes about hearing the stories of those eras, and creating nostalgia from those stories.
I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we’d go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn’t know what the story was about or anything.