Story Quotes
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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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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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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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 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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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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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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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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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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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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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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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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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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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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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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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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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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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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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
