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History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

Human beings are psychologically far more afraid of bugs than they are of driving a car, whereas people get killed by cars every single day, and there is hardly ever a story of people getting killed by bugs.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like Chucky or Saw or whatever, I'm like come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives. I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work if it were a man?" Well no, you can't make a man pregnant, so it's got to be a woman.