Story Quotes
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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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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If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
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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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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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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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Life is like sex, baby - the more you put in, the more you get out. End of story.
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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.
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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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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it into him.' I've never seen it. If a Democrat or Republican commits some horrendous story, the story will run. The networks will cover it.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
