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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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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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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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.
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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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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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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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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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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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Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
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I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.
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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.
