Story Quotes
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America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.
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Aside from our special teams, we played pretty well. That's been the story of our season so far.
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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.
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Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.
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Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.
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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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Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.
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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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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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The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.
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If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.
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There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.
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The most important thing for me in an action sequence is, you understand the characters' intention and the challenges the characters are going to have to face: what the character story is within the action sequence.
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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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Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.
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I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
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'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
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Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.
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The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the burdens that human people themselves alone must carry.
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The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
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But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.
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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
