Kara Swisher 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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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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When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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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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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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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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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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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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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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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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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
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There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
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Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?
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I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.
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