Story Quotes
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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They know my story, but I don't know theirs. That is why I keep doing it.
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In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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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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True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .
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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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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 God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.
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There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
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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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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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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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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
