Bonnie Fuller Quotes
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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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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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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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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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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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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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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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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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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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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.
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We're all over this story. This is not going to go away.
