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- Nov 07, 2020
Story Quotes
Every story is worth telling well.
One line here is about recognizing a story too rarely told, another about a lasting preference for tales of the underdog and survival. For similar reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I wanted to tell my story, and my story didn't appear to be appropriate for African-American women.
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I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.
- Life
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A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
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Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.
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I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.
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I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story.
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Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.
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My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
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I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
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When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.
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With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.
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'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.
- Nov 07, 2020