Story Quotes
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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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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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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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
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I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.
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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.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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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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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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Oh yeah, we got plenty of incentive. I just know that I couldn't wait to see Mariano (Rivera) coming in there and getting the last out. We didn't get that last year. But now we've got one more game to play to finish off this story.
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'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.
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I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
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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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Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search.
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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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'Sanam Re' is an amalgamation of an emotional love story and a visual treat.
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Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
