Chris Wallace Quotes
It doesn't mean that you endorse it. It doesn't mean you're being insensitive. It means you're a journalist and you're telling the story.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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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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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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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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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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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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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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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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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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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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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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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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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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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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I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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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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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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It doesn't mean that you endorse it. It doesn't mean you're being insensitive. It means you're a journalist and you're telling the story.
