George V. Higgins Quotes
The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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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 the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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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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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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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a 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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I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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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 will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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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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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
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My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
