Bart Ehrman Quotes
In oral societies it is recognized that the telling of a story to a different audience or in a different context or for a different reason calls for a different version of the story. Stories are molded to the time and circumstance in which they are told.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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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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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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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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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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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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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
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We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.
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In oral societies it is recognized that the telling of a story to a different audience or in a different context or for a different reason calls for a different version of the story. Stories are molded to the time and circumstance in which they are told.
