Simon Toyne Quotes
I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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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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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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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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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
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When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.
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I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
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There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
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There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.
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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
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The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
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One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
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I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
