Top 1200 True Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

When you are working on a real story it is your responsibility to get everything right and stay as true and authentic as possible.

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

My favorite movie is 'Imitation of Life.' It's just a true love story, and it really touched me.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each other, Stay true to the story, we know that we love each other, keep communication open. We knew how unique this was-you're doing a movie that really could be put out there all over the world, and you're telling this personal story about your family.

I think repetition is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you've told a story and now you're adding more story to the story.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.

It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.

Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not approaching it from the scientific point of view. I'm saying: Why do we need that? It's a sordid story, a depressing story, a dark story. Why should I believe that I'm a descendant of either Cain or Abel? Thank God there is a third son! [Genesis 4:25]

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

We're brought up to believe in a fairytale-romance sort of way that true love is out there and true loves don't care about what you look like and stuff, just what's down inside. And that's probably true, but what's also true, sadly, is that true loves are very rare and very hard to find.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

I look for what responsibility the character has in telling the story. If you remove the role from the story, can you still tell the story properly? And if the answer is no, then I'm interested.

Anything in which you're playing someone real does make you feel responsible for making the story as true as it can be.

With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

Everyone knows and loves Elton John's music, but the true story of his life is so incredible that it can only be described as a fantasy.

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.

Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of the story will be Time, But you must not pronounce its name. Tell me a story of deep delight.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

I thought my story was over. But that was when I realised I finally had a story to tell - and it seems to remind people of their own story.

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.

For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.

If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

My story was not a football story. My story was more about going against the odds of what life was handing me.

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)