Story Quotes
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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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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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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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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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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 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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Life is like sex, baby - the more you put in, the more you get out. End of 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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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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I don't take story input from fans.
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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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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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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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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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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 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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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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 first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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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.
