Story Quotes
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The album’s a story, and the story’s about a concept. Sure, it’s a concept record. I think the songs can exist on their own, independent of the record, but they don’t necessarily make sense that way.
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“All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.”
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Don’t make your story too big. I don’t want you big-noting me.
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I got a seven-year-old kid up on stage with me the other night and he knew every word to that song. Some people go their whole career without ever having a song anywhere near that big... When I first heard it I couldn't believe I didn't write the lyrics myself because it's the story of my life.
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My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
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Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
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The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!
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I think I'm enjoying writing for me.I know what's in my head, so there's a little less margin for error, but I think I really would like to write for an artist, and obviously it really depends on the artist, and the sort of story I would do.
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That's the most rock-and-roll story in the world. No one can top it.
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The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.
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If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.
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Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.
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Don’t blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.
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I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.
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O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland, Thou kind, thou comforting one. For I have seen his face, as I desired, And all my story is done. O, I am tired.
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Her life was her book. She didn’t get to choose the ending, but the way she filled the pages makes her story irresistible.
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“With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.”
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A story can only be contained in a book.
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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
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That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .
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Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly defeating, on your way. That's a given. Just wipe out the very notion of stress. Concentrate on your actors. Obsess about your story and the world it is anchored in. Deal with the hundreds of down-to-earth issues [around] the existence of your film. At some point, everything will be ripe. And you wouldn't be able to stop your film from coming to life even if you wanted to.
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Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.
