Story Quotes
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
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Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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The story is more important to me than the part.
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Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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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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The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
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I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
