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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Now, that's the story from this week, and that's what I think we should focus on.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.
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I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.
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I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.
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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.
