Story Quotes
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
Irwin Shaw -
A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
Sam Hunt
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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.
Gal Gadot -
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.
Rabih Alameddine -
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin -
I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
Garth Davis -
I came up with a story and I wrote it.
E. L. James -
To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.
Ryan Phillippe
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Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.
Nathan Fillion -
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
Karen Thompson Walker -
I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
Victor LaValle -
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.
Sam Mendes -
Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab Calloway
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
Walter Kirn -
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
Harlan Howard -
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.
Vanessa Paradis -
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White -
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
Aaliyah -
The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
Zoe Sugg
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Edmond de Goncourt -
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.
Karen Thompson Walker -
There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
Hannah Kent -
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
A. N. Wilson