Story Quotes
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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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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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Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.
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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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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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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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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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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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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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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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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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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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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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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 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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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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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
