Story Quotes
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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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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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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The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
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I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
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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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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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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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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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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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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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When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
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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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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
