Judith Leiber Quotes
I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.
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Being nomadic isn't sustainable forever. I've gotten to be really good at it.
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The most remarkable thing in Binder's article may be her reference to a Women's Studies professor at the University of Michigan who, in Binder's words, worries that Fat Studies "may lead to a social proselytizing rather than serious study." In short, identity studies are becoming so far removed from any hint of academic or intellectual legitimacy that even teachers of a more established and only moderately asinine disciplines are reacting to the far more extreme asininity of newer ones.
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I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
