As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
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