Adele Logan Alexander Quotes
I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.
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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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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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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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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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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 like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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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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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.
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Preparing a lieder recital is quite different to me than preparing an operatic role. In an opera you are one of many striving to tell a story.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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We are on a crazy strategy with our central bank. It's good to have alternative ecosystems. It's not that the dollar will go away, but we need other options if it crashes or wildly inflates.
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The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
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I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.
