Top 100 Real Story Quotes
#1. It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Baltasar Kormakur
#2. It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
Christian Slater
#3. The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.
Scarlett Pomers
#4. We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of
real story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life instruction" it brings - we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art!
Derek Rydall
#5. Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.
Vijay Seshadri
#6. You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate ... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation ...
Patrick Symmes
#7. But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
Jimmy Connors
#8. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too.
Gretchen Carlson
#9. The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
Magic Johnson
#10. I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.
Nas
#11. A happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It's where the real story begins.
Sarah Addison Allen
#12. The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
Stewart Udall
#13. He needed a story to go with her wildness, her coldness, her hollowness. The real story was that she'd had everything and hadn't deserved it, when she'd still wanted something else to sate a broken twisting emptiness that couldn't be filled.
Cole McCade
#14. When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl
Louis Walsh
#15. Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.
Bill Johnson
#16. All have own love story . but real story only be in histroy
Me
#17. I knew now there was no such thing as a biblioblackhole.
Everything written truly lived.
Every real word. Every real story.
You had to find your words. You had to find your story.
Tarun J. Tejpal
#18. They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person.
Brownell Landrum
#19. The real story of Detroit [ ... ] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.
Peter Schiff
#20. Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.
Stanley Schmidt
#21. Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
Eazy-E
#22. It doesn't matter if it's aliens or emotional weapons or whatever - it's still a real story about big feelings that have to come out.
Margaret Stohl
#23. Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
Gail Carson Levine
#24. I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.
Columbus Short
#25. If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
Kendrick Lamar
#26. New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would not be the murderer. It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real story but isn't going to tell it. - DONALD E. WESTLAKE
Thomas Pynchon
#27. I can't help but think that, comic book-wise, this whole episode would probably fill nothing but a couple interlude frames; like that moment where a character has a sepia-tinted dream before crashing back into their real story.
Melissa Keil
#28. The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#29. my foolishness had me believe that i was the story, and this bleak cold night merely its setting, but in fact my real story played itself out almost independently of me or, more precisely, occurred parallel to my own little adventures.
Peter Nadas
#30. But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life
Renata Adler
#31. The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
Mark Zuckerberg
#32. We'll get the real story when we get to heaven! REFLECTION
Stephen C. Doyle
#33. I wonder if people would learn from the Little Mermaid's heartbreak when she dies at the end of her real story. I
Chris Colfer
#34. The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.
Harlan Ellison
#35. Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is not a novelization of that story.
Amity Gaige
#36. The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#38. If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
Anton Corbijn
#39. I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
Neil Oliver
#40. The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.
John Podhoretz
#41. The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?
Eli Of Kittim
#42. One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.
John Gallagher Jr.
#43. Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story.
John C. Reilly
#44. If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
Stephen Graham Jones
#45. The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.
Scott Walker
#46. The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.
George Clooney
#47. When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.
Negash Ali
#48. Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.
Douglas Brinkley
#49. A flower's happy ending is in the sun, but its real story took place in the dark.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.
A.A. Milne
#51. And yet, every day, Brian gathers his sister's long hair into a beautiful plait, and just the sound of his voice is enough to calm her when she is uncomfortable and frightened. I think that tells me his real story.
Mary Ann Rivers
#52. If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.
Alex Haley
#53. The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.
Vanna Bonta
#54. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls and bodies of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared and detested.
John Howard Griffin
#55. The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art - that is, the meaningful-real.
(The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952))
William, Saroyan
#56. Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. Will you miss him Holly?" he asked suddenly.
[ ... ] "No," she said. "I will not miss him."
But her eyes told the real story.
Eoin Colfer
#58. All life is only allegory and the real story is not here ...
Richard Flanagan
#59. Just because I haven't said anything about it, doesn't mean I don't know the REAL story. Remember, people talk.
L. Michelle
#61. My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
Taylor Swift
#62. Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success
Marlon James
#63. I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects not only the addict but also the people who love him/her, rather than "just say no."
Ellen Hopkins
#64. Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.
David Simon
#65. Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.
Tony Dungy
#66. There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.
Margaret Atwood
#67. What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.
Drake
#68. The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.
James Balog
#69. I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
Evan Hunter
#70. Forget the prince and princess. I always imagined the real story was between the witch and the dragon.
Mia Sheridan
#71. Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
Yishan Wong
#72. Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
Savi Sharma
#73. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?
Ayn Rand
#74. My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.
Greg Pak
#75. Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
Wentworth Miller
#76. I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert
#77. The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.
Lynda Barry
#78. About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.
Lois Tilton
#79. Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.
Sharon Salzberg
#80. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply.
Kathryn Perez
#81. Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.
Bryn Greenwood
#82. When I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are
more real than the schoolroom. I feel as if I were all the people in the story
one after the other. It is queer.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#83. In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.
Anthony Burgess
#84. Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.
Seth Godin
#85. Any real, beautiful thing in this world shouldn't be tamed or claimed or broken. It should be allowed to be, worked with, not against, appreciated. Don't be afraid of the wild she has left. It makes her special.
Carly Kade
#86. I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.
Karen Russell
#87. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
Ned Vizzini
#88. Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story ... Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
L.M. Montgomery
#89. Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#90. Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#91. It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.
Rob Reiner
#93. You see so many movies ... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.
Peter Bogdanovich
#94. The romantic love story is a paradoxical fusion of two extraordinarily potent messages. The first is that love, deep connection, is the most important, indeed the only truly important matter in the world. And the second is that true love cannot exist in this world.
Terrence Real
#95. If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
Uday Kotak
#96. It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
Mark Hoppus
#97. It's Life. It's the bumps and the bruises, the pain and the fear; it's messy and it's real and it's not some perfect little story that can be tied up in a bow.
Tara Sivec
#98. The story you think you know is never the real one.
Lily King
#99. Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.
Ellen Hopkins
#100. I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.
Emma Donoghue
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