Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes
I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.
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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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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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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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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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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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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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Now, that's the story from this week, and that's what I think we should focus on.
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What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
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Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.
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You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.
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I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.
