Story Quotes
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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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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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.
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The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.
